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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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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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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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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 problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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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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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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