Talk:Larry Wall
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Larry has been quoted as saying that the three cardinal virtues of a programmer are hubris, laziness, and impatience. I'm surprised not to see that in here somewhere. Bovlb 18:16, 2004 Apr 26 (UTC)
- More of a WikiQuote thing really (they have lots of his quotes, that one included), I've added the wikiquote link. --fvw 21:56, 2004 Oct 7 (UTC)
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[edit] "Linguist by trade"
I'm pretty much 99% sure that Larry Wall is not employed as a linguist, but rather as a programmer and writer, and previously as a systems administrator. He was trained in linguistics at some point, but I don't know when or how. --ESP 06:32, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Canadian Larry Wall is different from the Perl creator
Unfortunately, somebody put in that Larry Wall was born in 1949 in Canada. The two Larry's are extremely similar in appearance, age, and places they've lived, so the confusion is understandable:
| Canadian-Larry-Wall | Perl-Larry-Wall | |
| Eyewear: | Wears Glasses | Wears glasses |
| Facial: | Has a moustache | Has a moustache |
| Ethnicity: | Caucasian (white) | Caucasian (white) |
| Birth year: | March 10, 1949 | Most web sites say 1954 |
| Birthplace: | Duncan, British Columbia, Canada | Most web sites say Los Angeles, California |
| Life location: | Grew up in Silicon Valley area (San Jose, California). As an adult, moved to Seattle, Washington as an adult | Grew up around Seattle, Washington. As an adult, moved to Silicon Valley area (Mountain View, California) (note: the exact opposite route of Canadian-Larry-Wall!) |
| College: | Attended San Jose State University | Graduated from Seattle Pacific University |
| Spouse's name: | Kathleen | Gloria |
| Occupation: | Painter, sculptor | Perl |
| Homepage: | http://www.walrusproductions.com/zaboutlarry.html (has photographs) | http://www.wall.org/~larry/ (has photographs) |
Also, the 1949 page references the American Programmer, but puts in the Candian Larry wall's birthdate. While the 1954 page doesn't list Larry wall at all.
[edit] Birthday
So if it isn't March 10, remove it from there as well? Or is it same day but different year? BACbKA 14:17, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- It should probably be removed.
[edit] Larry didn't write "confess"
The article says the "confess" subroutine of the Carp module is from Larry Wall, but that's not true. 12:14, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Reference to my paragraph of Larry's grad school plans
See interview with Perl from 1998: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980408S0020 , search for "Africa".
