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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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