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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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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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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Information wants to be useful.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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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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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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Portability should be the default.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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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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