“Why Bible quotes exclusively? What happened to the Eastern religions? I'm still working on the Unicode mods.”

— Larry Wall

[199807021924.MAA05380@wall.org, 1998]
Usenet postings, 1998

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American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

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