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Larry Wall Quotes: The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
         

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.


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