Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes
and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
"What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that
people have stopped banging their heads against?"
-- Larry Wall in [email protected]
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