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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Larry Wall

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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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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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Portability should be the default.
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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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The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.
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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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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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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
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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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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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