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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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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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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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