print rand rand rand 1, '\n'; # interesting distribution - Larry Wall

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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 way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map!
Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations...
Boss: And what's that 'goto' doing there?!?
Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing 'getservbyport'...
Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked APL.

At many levels, Perl is a 'diagonal' language.

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