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I started out as a BASIC programmer. Some people would say that I'm permanently damaged. Some people are undoubtedly right... But I'm not going to apologize for that. All language designers have their occasional idiosyncracies. I'm just better at it than most.
— Larry Wall
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About Larry Wall
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
About Larry Wall
Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.
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