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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
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.
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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).
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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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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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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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Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable.
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To Perl , or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
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It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
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I'd make people say 'use Fork' if I thought I could get away with it.
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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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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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Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.
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