The Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group, in conjunction with the University of
Cincinnati, will host Larry Wall, designer and original author
of the Perl programming language, for an event entitled "An Evening with Larry
Wall". The event will be held at the University of Cincinnati's Engineering
Research Building (ERC) Auditorium, Room 427, at 8 p.m. on January 22. This
event is open to the public and everyone is welcome to attend.
Larry Wall will speak about his extensive work on open source and free
software, and in particular, the Perl programming language. Perl is a powerful
programming language used by system administrators and software developers for
sophisticated text manipulation, system management, and database interfacing.
In 1999, The Perl Journal estimated that there are approximately one million
Perl programmers worldwide.
