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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Larry Wall

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Perl
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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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The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious.
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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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