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Wall, Larry
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Official site which includes photographs, links, his geek code block, transcripts of his speeches, and a diary of his cornea transplant.
http://wall.org/~larry/
Marjorie Richardson's interview covers subjects such as Wall's inspiration to write Perl initially, the evolution of the language, how the language is being used, and his personal life.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3394
Eugene Eric Kim's interview which discusses the state of Perl, scripting language design, and the importance of culture to a language.
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DDJ>A Conversation with Larry Wall Click here to check out the new Whitepapers section on the Developer Network LOG IN 8226; Register 8226; Forgot password? Registration FAQ What are the green links? All Access members only RSS Feed DDJ Dr. Dobb's Articles 1998 9802 A...Archive of articles written by Wall, covering subjects such as Perl 6 and the Perl culture.
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Perl while a programmer at Unisys. He now works full time guiding the future development of the language as a researcher and developer at O'Reilly Associates. Larry is known for his idiosyncratic and thought-provoking approach to programming, as well as...Larry Wall's article about the history and evolution of the language.
http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-10/uncultured_01.html
Lorrie Faith Cranor's interview with Wall, and overview of Perl's history.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/lwall.html
Wall answers questions questions about XML support, Perl's Unicode implementation, the Win32 Perl port, the ActiveState visual Perl debugger, and the guiding philosophy behind the language.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/feature/7137/
Andrew Leonard's interview with Wall, charting the language's history, culture, and future.
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Salon 21st The joy of Perl Share your personal list of do's and don'ts in Table Talk's Digital Culture area R E C E N T L Y Typing for nonconformists By Alex Marshall The Dvorak alternative keyboard is a boon for the aching hand (10/12/98)...Conducted at a Conference in Kyoto, Japan. Wall discusses topics including Perl certification, the commercialization of Perl, competition between open source projects, and the power of laziness.
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LWN interview: Larry Wall This interview took place at Perl/Ruby Conference which was held at the end of last year at Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, Japan by O'Reilly Japan. We would like to thank Larry Wall, Ko Kazaana, Kenji Watari, Takaaki Higuchi, and...