Larry Wall
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954 in Los Angeles ) is an American linguist , programmer and author .
Wall studied linguistics at Seattle Pacific University and as a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, Berkeley . After his studies, he worked primarily as a system administrator and programmer, and later as a book author. Wall worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , for Unisys and for O'Reilly Verlag , among others .
He is the inventor of the programming language Perl , the widespread program patch , author of Usenet - Clients rn and the producer of configuration scripts metaconfig . He twice won the IOCCC Competition ( International Obfuscated C Code Contest ) for the most obscure C - source code , received in March 1993, Dr. Dobbs Journal Excellence in Programming Award and in October 1998 the first FSF Award . The camel book he co-wrote ( Programming Perl ) was one of the first books about Perl and is still considered the basis for studying the language today. For years he has mainly been redesigning the Perl 6 syntax .
Aside from his skills as a programmer, Wall is known for his humor, wit and fine sense of irony , which often appears in discussions on Usenet or on mailing lists , in interviews and in speeches at open source congresses.
He is married to Gloria Wall, with whom he has four children, including the physicist Aron C. Wall . He also likes to publicly profess his Christian faith . He is a member of the Cupertino New Life Nazarene Church and is a passionate violin player .
literature
- Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant: Programming with Perl . O'Reilly Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89721-144-0 (English: Programming Perl . Translated by Peter Klicman).
Web links
- Personal homepage (English)
- The St. Larry Wall Shrine , collection of his speeches, work and interviews (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wall, Larry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist, inventor of the Perl programming language |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |