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Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

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Larry Wall
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, Well, just go and read the documentation, but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.
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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
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Portability should be the default.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.
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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.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.
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But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)
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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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