When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.
Michael Scheuer
If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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