Larry Wall
Creator, Perl Programming Language
Larry Wall is the computer programmer responsible for creating Perl, a powerful general-purpose programming language known for its strengths in text processing. Wall, whose graduate work was in linguistics, designed Perl in 1987 for reports processing and continues to oversee the language's development according to the motto "Larry is always right, even when he was wrong." He also originated the three canonical "virtues" of a good programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
The famous developer of Perl talks about his work set-up, how he works best, and why he sometimes procrastinates.
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“But when good taste becomes mandatory, then it’s not really good taste any more—it’s just manners,” says Wall.
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The “Lord of the Rings” characters embody what Wall sees as the three virtues of good programmers: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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Programmer Larry Page offers language suggestions to amateur programmers who might not know exactly where to start.
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Computer programming is a lot like writing a recipe. If you’ve read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is and you can copy the format to […]
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“Perl culture is a culture of fun; we really encourage that and do not think that it is in any way counter to the notion of doing good work,” says […]
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Wall’s background in linguistics helped him to create a programming language that borrows bits from other languages, much like English.
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Perl developer Larry Wall says that, like a human language, you can use Perl in many ways—for baby talk, grownup talk, writing poetry or plays, and even cussing.
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A conversation with the founder of the Perl programming language
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