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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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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
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And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState.
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While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the few hours of the night and then I often take a nap in the middle of the day just to sort of make up for stretching my day out.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.
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The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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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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Information wants to be useful.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.
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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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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
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I want to see people using Perl to glue things together creatively, not just technically but also socially.
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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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