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by lioeters 2171 days ago
Great find - Larry Wall writes:

> Three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience, and hubris. Great Perl programmers embrace those virtues. So do Open Source developers.

> But here I’m going to talk about some other virtues: diligence, patience, and humility.

> If you think these sound like the opposite, you’re right. If you think a single community can’t embrace opposing values, then you should spend more time with Perl. After all, there’s more than one way to do it.