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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 don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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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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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Information wants to be useful.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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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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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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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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