Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who ha… - Larry Wall

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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

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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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Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days? - Larry Wall

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