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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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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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Now, I'm not the only language designer with irrationalities. You can think of some languages to go with some of these things.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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