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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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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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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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