The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey … - Larry Wall

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The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.

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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]

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