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"Perl programming is an *empirical* science!"
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Larry Wall"The only reason Ive managed to run this open source project, is that I have learned to delegate even the delegation to other people. (final words of the video)."
Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
"Perl programming is an *empirical* science!"
"Because . doesnt match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing."
"Yknow, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!"
"Even the White House has a press agent."
"If you want to program in C, program in C. Its a nice language. I use it occasionally..."
"To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching."