OT: biography of Larry Wall

[Mario Fischer]

Hi!

I have to create a presentation of a person who changed the history of
computer science and as a perl-programmer I want to introduce Larry
Wall to my profile course at school in my presentation.

I searched by using Google and others, but I didn't find a good
source. O'Reilly itself says there is no biography available, but that
doesn't make sense. Is this man such a great mistery? ;-)

Can anyone provide good sources with numbers (that was the main
problem of the sources I saw: there was said that he studied and
worked somewhere, but nowhere I could find the exact year or month, so
it was useless)?

Thanks!

Regards,
Mario

 

[James Willmore]

I have to create a presentation of a person who changed the history of
computer science and as a perl-programmer I want to introduce Larry
Wall to my profile course at school in my presentation.

I searched by using Google and others, but I didn't find a good
source. O'Reilly itself says there is no biography available, but that
doesn't make sense. Is this man such a great mistery? ;-)

Can anyone provide good sources with numbers (that was the main
problem of the sources I saw: there was said that he studied and
worked somewhere, but nowhere I could find the exact year or month, so
it was useless)?

http://www.wall.org/~larry/ is Larry Wall's home page. There is listed
his .... email address

You could just send him (a professional and honest) email and see what
happens. I don't know the man, but I'm willing to go out on a limb and
say you're not the first person to ask.

HTH

--
Jim

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[Paul Lalli]

Hi!

I have to create a presentation of a person who changed the history of
computer science and as a perl-programmer I want to introduce Larry
Wall to my profile course at school in my presentation.

I searched by using Google and others, but I didn't find a good
source. O'Reilly itself says there is no biography available, but that
doesn't make sense. Is this man such a great mistery? ;-)

Can anyone provide good sources with numbers (that was the main
problem of the sources I saw: there was said that he studied and
worked somewhere, but nowhere I could find the exact year or month, so
it was useless)?

Thanks!

Regards,
Mario

Well, there's an interview he did with Linux Journal that has some basic
parts of a biography....

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3394

Paul Lalli