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Portability should be the default.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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