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Larry Wall


Programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
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Larry Wall
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.  :-)




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In Clintonese, that would be 'You are free to infer that I was saying that.'  :-)
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There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.
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echo 'Your stdio isn't very std.'
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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Beauty? What's that?
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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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Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.  :-)
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.  :-)




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Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl.  :-)
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It's documented in The Book, somewhere...
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.  :-)
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/* This bit of chicanery makes a unary function followed by a parenthesis into a function with one argument, highest precedence. */
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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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I surely do hope that's a syntax error.
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I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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