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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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