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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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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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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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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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