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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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