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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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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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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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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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