Larry Arnold Wall was born on September 27,1954 and is an American computer programmer and author.
15 Facts About Larry Wall
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Larry Wall later pursued graduate studies in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Larry Wall is known for developing the Perl interpreter and language, authoring the definitive resource, Programming Perl, and editing the Perl Cookbook.
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Larry Wall is the original author of the Usenet client 'rn' and the widely-used 'patch' program.
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Larry Wall has received multiple awards for his work, including the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1998.
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Larry Wall grew up in Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later pre-medicine with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before graduating with a bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.
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Larry Wall is an active member of the New Life, Church of the Nazarene.
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Larry Wall is the author of the rn Usenet client and the widely used patch program.
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Larry Wall has won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice and was the recipient of the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1998.
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Beyond his technical skills, Larry Wall has a reputation for his wit and often sarcastic sense of humour.
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Larry Wall developed the Perl interpreter and language while working for System Development Corporation, which later became part of Burroughs and then Unisys.
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Larry Wall is the co-author of Programming Perl, which is the definitive resource for Perl programmers; and edited the Perl Cookbook.
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Larry Wall then became employed full-time by O'Reilly Media to further develop Perl and write books on the subject.
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Larry Wall often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale.
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Larry Wall has alluded to his faith when speaking at conferences, including on August 23,1999, at the Perl Conference 3.0 in Monterey, CA.