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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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Linguist
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LA
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Larry Arnold Wall
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.
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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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Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
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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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Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.
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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 think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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