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

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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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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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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Information wants to be useful.
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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 procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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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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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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