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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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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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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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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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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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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.
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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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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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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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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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