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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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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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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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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'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?
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I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)
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So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.
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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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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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