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Larry Wall
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Larry Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist and author who created the Perl programming language while employed as a programmer at Unisys, releasing version 1.0 on December 18, 1987, as a general-purpose Unix scripting language meant to make report processing easier. He also created the patch tool and the rn Usenet client, and won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice. In 1998 he received the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
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Wall is the author of the rn Usenet client and the widely used patch program.
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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
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