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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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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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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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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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The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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