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Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars...

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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?

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Yes, we have consensus that we need 64 bit support.

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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.

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So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL.

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Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.

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Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.

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Just put in another goto, and then it'll be readable.

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Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.

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Just don't make the '9' format pack/unpack numbers...

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It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun.

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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

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Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature

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Print rand rand rand 1, '
'; # interesting distribution

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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

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Hey, if pi == 3, and three == 0, does that make pi == 0?

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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.

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And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

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'Course, that doesn't work when 'a' contains parentheses.

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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

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I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.

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Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

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You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

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Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon.

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Sometimes we choose the generalization. Sometimes we don't.

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There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs.

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You don't have to wait—you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.

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What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.

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