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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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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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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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Portability should be the default.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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