1. Larry Arnold Wall was born on September 27,1954 and is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
11 Facts About Larry Wall
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Larry Wall started higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later pre-medicine.
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For health reasons these plans were cancelled, and they remained in the United States, where Larry Wall instead joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory after he finished graduate school.
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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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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 is an active member of the New Life, Church of the Nazarene.
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Larry Wall has alluded to his faith when speaking at conferences, including at the Perl Conference 3.0 on August 23,1999.