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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
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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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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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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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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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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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.
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We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
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There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
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