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Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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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 someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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