Re: [MacPerl] I am looking for Larry Wall

[Andy Berkvam <aberkvam@coredcs.com>]

'lo,

  Nice to see a fellow Milwaukeeian around here.

  I wouldn't recommend starting by contacting Larry Wall directly.  I
imagine he's a rather busy man.  But he has a home page on the net with a
lot of information about Perl and links to interviews with him that
probably contains much of the information you are looking for.

Perl FAQ:
http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfaq1.html

Larry Wall's Home Page:
http://kiev.wall.org/~larry/

Perl History:
http://history.perl.org/

  You may also want to check out "Learning Perl" from O'Reilly
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl2/>. It includes some history and
philosophy of Perl.

  If you find that none of the information from these sources meets your
needs, you can always try emailing Larry.  His email address is on his web
page but there's also a warning, "I do answer my email. Occasionally."  In
other words, you will probably get the info a lot faster if you look for
it yourself.

Andy

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Christopher Swope wrote:

> For this purpose, I am looking for Larry Wall.  No I am not a 
> computer phyco, nor his stalker.  I am interested in finding out 
> precise and detailed reasons of why he decided to write Perl, for I 
> understand that it was because he decided that awk, if you know what 
> that is, (I don't really), was not powerful enough.
> 
> If you would know where to find him, or how to contact him, please 
> let me know.  I feel that he would have valuable information that 
> could help me.  Furthermore, if you have information that you feel 
> might help me, I would like that also.
> 
> Feel free to be longwinded, the more information, the better.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Christopher Swope
> 
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