31 Mar
2009
31 Mar
'09
3:57 p.m.
The Harvard Computer Society is proud to bring you Larry Wall,
legendary inventor of Perl, to Harvard today!
Come to Science Center Hall D at 5:30PM for an unedited version of the
history of Perl, its current development, and much wit and panache.
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Larry Wall was educated at various places including the Cornish School
of Music, the Seattle Youth Symphony, Seattle Pacific University,
Multnomah School of the Bible, SIL International, U.C. Berkeley, and
UCLA. Though trained primarily in music, chemistry, and linguistics,
Larry has been working with computers for the last 35 years or so. He
is most famous for writing _rn_, _patch_, and the Perl programming
language, but prefers to think of himself as a cultural hacker whose
vocation in life is to bring a bit of joy into the dreary existence of
programmers. For various definitions of "work for", Larry has worked
for Seattle Pacific, MusiComedy Northwest, System Development
Corporation, Burroughs, Unisys, the NSA, Telos, ConTel, GTE, JPL,
NetLabs, Seagate, Tim O'Reilly, the Perl Foundation, and
himself. Larry is currently employed by NetLogic Microsystems in
Mountain View, California. To get to work, he walks past both the
Computer History Museum and the Googleplex, which must mean something.
Preferably something absurd.
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