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Approach Quote by Larry Wall

“If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are…” quote by Larry Wall — Download Open image

“If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”

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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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I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

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“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

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The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

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