Salon Magazine: The joy of Perl Oct 13, 1998, 09 :09 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2935 reads)
How Larry Wall invented a messy programming language --
and changed the face of the web.
Larry Wall smiles when he recalls the message that
Yahoo co-founder David Filo sent him several years ago,
shortly before Yahoo was to go public. Yahoo, wrote
Filo, could never have been started without Perl, the
all-purpose programming language Wall invented. So
would Larry like to buy some cheap, pre-IPO stock?