Quote #76

Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl if I think they improve the language. :-)

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  1. I'd put my money where my mouth is, but my mouth keeps moving.
  2. Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
  3. They can always run stderr through uniq. :-)
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  5. Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
  6. We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed. :-)
  7. So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL. :-)
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