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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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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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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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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 computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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Portability should be the default.
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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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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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