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If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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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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If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.
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The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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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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As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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Programmers can be lazy.
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A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.
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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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