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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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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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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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