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ninetax
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Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl
This is such a great piece of writing. Tongue in chic at every turn, but it really washes over me when he talks about the art. It makes me remember that computer science is less about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
karamazov
on Aug 13, 2012
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It's "tongue in cheek", by the way.
tjic
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Not if you're doing it the new cool way. ;-)
ninetax
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Whoops, my cursory googling turned up a band's album on wikipedia, not the page of the phrase.
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