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ThePherocity
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Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl
It's funny, because for me this is it's greatest weakness. I prefer not to wonder if I'm making the wrong decision every line.
jonathansizz
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On the other hand, Perl programmers don't have to lose sleep worrying about whether what they're doing is sufficiently 'Perlesque', in notable contrast to similar languages I could mention.
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It's doubtful anyone loses sleep over such things.
jrockway
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Which programming language do you use where one can't worry about this?
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