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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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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
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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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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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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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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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