Larry Wall Facts

Larry Wall is the creator of the Perl programming language, and the inventor of the patch program.

Larry Wall Facts

• Larry Wall can understand the Perl code he wrote last year.
• Larry Wall gets the colon.
• There are at least 137 Larry Walls in the U.S., but only one that matters.
• Larry Wall applies a patch manually quicker than GNU patch.
• Larry Wall dreams in Perl.
• Larry Wall can program in his sleep.
• Larry Wall is lazy, impatient, and full of hubris.
• Larry Wall has more dollars in the bank than in his Perl code.
• Larry Wall does know all of Perl. However, he pretends to be wrong or misinformed, so people will think he’s not as awesome as he really is.
• Larry Wall’s pure-Perl code is faster than Assembly.
• Larry Wall has been changing the world. By modifying its very source code.
• Larry Wall can make shit up, and the computer will understand what he means.

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