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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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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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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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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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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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