I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

They would then use this new writing system to translate various texts into the language among them the Bible. He has won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice and was the recipient of the first Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1998. He often compares Perl to a natural language and explains his decisions in Perl's design with linguistic rationale.

Larry Wall (born September 27 1954) is a computer programmer and author most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987.