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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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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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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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