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3 Larry Wall Quotes on Abstraction

Larry Wall quotes on abstraction

  1. Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'.

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

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  3. Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.

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