“Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.”

— Larry Wall

[9682@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990

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American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

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