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Portability should be the default.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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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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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 think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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