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“I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...)”

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Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

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Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.

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Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

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I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

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Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

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I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble.

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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…

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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

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I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

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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…

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All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory...

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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

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