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The autodecrement is not magical.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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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'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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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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Portability should be the default.
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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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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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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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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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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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