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Larry Wall: How to Code Like Larry Wall New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A conversation with the founder of the Perl programming language ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LARRY WALL: Larry Wall is the computer programmer responsible for creating Perl, a powerful general-purpose programming language known for its strengths in text processing. Wall, whose graduate work was in linguistics, designed Perl in 1987 for reports processing and continues to oversee the language's development according to the motto "Larry is always right, even when he was wrong." He also originated the three canonical "virtues" of a good programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Larry Wall: My name is Larry Wall and I am variously known as a husband and father and as the creator of the Perl programming language and to some people, sort of a cult leader in the sense that Perl is a culture, a vibrant culture, with many people involved in it, and I feel it's my obligation to help people understand how a culture can surround a computer language and the culture and the language reinforce each other in a positive way. Question: How would you explain what Perl is to a non-programmer? Larry Wall: Well

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