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Feed: LARRY WALL: Divine Invention

Author Erik Davis talks to Perl creator Larry Wall.

“He has quoted scripture before crowds of hackers. He glides
from notions of devotion and divinity to the nuts and bolts of
evolutionary programming. And his progeny is just about everywhere
on the Web.

“Larry Wall, a linguist and self-effacing polymath, is the
creator of the popular and ubiquitous Perl programming
language.”

Complete
interview
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