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If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.
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I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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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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I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
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