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Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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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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Portability should be the default.
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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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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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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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Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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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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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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Information wants to be useful.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
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What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
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I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
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