COMP[29]041 Lecture Notices (26)

Larry Wall

Trained as linguist at UCB/UCLA
Open source software developer
(while working at Unisys)
Software produced (since 1980)
- rn ... a threaded newsgroup reader
- patch ... source code update applier
- perl ... programming language
- metaconfig ... makes Configure scripts
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Web site: www.wall.org/~larry