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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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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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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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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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