Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature … - Larry Wall

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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

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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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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. - Larry Wall

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