You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

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.