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The autodecrement is not magical.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
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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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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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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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You know, I've got my hands in 30 or 40 different pots simultaneously and so I have a little bit of all of that where I work.
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What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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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, 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'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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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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