Talk:Larry Wall

message: 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)
thread_title:  "Linguist by trade" 

message: 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)
replies: text: It should probably be removed.
Wall was born in 1954. 95.88.71.75 (talk) 07:24, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthday 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Larry didn't write "confess" 

message: I don't think Larry ever said that the term PERL was Biblical in origin.  All his books, and books about PERL, describe how he developed the language after starting with the early extraction and reporting tools awk and sed.  He refined them into a new tool which he referred to as his Practical Extraction & Report Language, or PERL.  Any text on Perl will include this historical tidbit at the front. Back of Beyond (talk) 06:10, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The origins of the name PERL 

message: Are there really two such rules?  I followed the link to the
"official Perl documentation",
but that seems like a piece of self-mockery or an in-joke.
Perhaps this part of the article (him having veto in the Perl development) should
be written in more neutral terms, i.e. ones which doesn't make him sound like Josef Stalin.
That also goes for the Benevolent Dictator for Life title – where has it ever been
consistently applied to Wall?
JöG (talk) 21:45, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: FWIW, as one of the perl5-porters and long-time user (i.e. an insider), I second this. The "2 rules" thing is indeed an in-joke even if we consider Larry's opinion very important. On a related note, Larry has withdrawn from the Perl 5 (the language that people mean if they refer to "Perl" nowadays) development. Instead, he has been exclusively working on an entirely new language: Perl 6. -- Steffen Mueller 141.52.67.206 (talk) 18:00, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have updated the article to remove the two roles joke as well as the incorrect statement. SimplifyYourCSS (talk) 08:08, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  the so-called 2 Rules 

message: Shouldn't the creation of Perl be listed in the Accomplishments section? Rodeored (talk) 13:30, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Accomplishment 

message: I've been looking for the original essay about manipulexity and whipituptitude, that I believe Larry coined.  I'm surprised I haven't been able to find the info here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.247.167.104 (talk) 04:33, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manipulexity and Whipituptitude 

message: Wall continues to oversee further development of Perl and serves as the benevolent dictator for life of the Perl project.
Larry Wall has not posted anything to the Perl5 Porters mailing list since 2008. 
After twelve years of making no contributions whatsoever, it cannot be said that Larry Wall continues to oversee further development of Perl. SimplifyYourCSS (talk) 07:16, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and removed it. SimplifyYourCSS (talk) 08:09, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Larry Wall does not continue to oversee further development of Perl 

message: The redirect Three Virtues of a Programmer has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Tea2min (talk) 09:53, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Three Virtues of a Programmer]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]