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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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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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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'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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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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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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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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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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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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There's a saying in the software design industry: Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two.
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