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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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The autodecrement is not magical.
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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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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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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.
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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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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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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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I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.
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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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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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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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