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

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Larry Arnold Wall
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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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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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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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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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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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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