“[Larry] Wall [creator of the #Perl #programming language] lets others man the defenses against Perl’s assailants. When I asked him for a response to a point-by-point critique from [Eric S.] Raymond, he sent me a one-line e-mail quoting Leo #Tolstoy:

“’It is amazing,’ wrote Tolstoy, ‘how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.’”

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