The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical sco… - Larry Wall

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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.

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About Larry Wall

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

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Alternative Names: TimToady • Larry Arnold Wall
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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.
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