Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Some… - Larry Wall

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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]

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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 following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.

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Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?] - Larry Wall

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