Larry Wall

Quotes

• “Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.”
• “And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.”
• “Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.”
• “Besides, REAL computers have a rename() system call.”
• “Chip Salzenberg sent me a complete patch to add System V IPC (msg, sem and shm calls), so I added them. If that bothers you, you can always undefine them in config.sh.”
• “I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”

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Key facts

Born

Larry Arnold Wall , ( 1954-09-27 ) September 27, 1954 (age 71) , Los Angeles, California , US

Alma mater

Seattle Pacific University , UC Berkeley

Occupations

Computer programmer, author

Known for

Perl , patch , Raku

Spouse

Gloria Wall

Children

4, including Aron

Website

www .wall .org /~larry /

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Wikidata facts

Official website

www.wall.org

Image

Larry Wall YAPC 2007.jpg

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