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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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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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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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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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