But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leavi… - Larry Wall

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But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

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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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