Larry Wall

Also known as TimToady, Larry Arnold Wall

American computer programmer and author

Person · Open Library

Works: 7

Top works

Programming Perl
Perl Resource Kit
O'Reilly Perl Toolkit
Open sources
Achieve your dreams

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1964

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Discography

Vigil (from "Mass Effect")2019

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Listeners: 103
Total plays: 118

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,588x
New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors
· 2000 · cited 13,395x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,740x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,762x
Introduction to Meta‐Analysis
· 2009 · cited 9,423x

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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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Official website: www.wall.org
Image: Larry Wall YAPC 2007.jpg
Number of children: 4

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date of birth: 1954-09-27
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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.

Early life and education