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16s on Dec 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can English Majors Be Good Developers?

Larry Wall has a bachelor's degree in "Natural and Artificial Languages". He wrote Perl for all you youngsters out there ;)

codewright on Dec 14, 2012 [–]

The influence of Wall's linguistics background on Perl is pretty profound and obvious. He referenced it often.

>He wrote Perl for all you youngsters out there

I don't know what's young for you, but I'm 24 and was perfectly familiar with Wall's work and background.

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