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Larry Wall

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If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.
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Usenet article <199710050130.SAA04762@wall.org> (1997)

 
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