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You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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