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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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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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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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