This document provides biographical information about Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl programming language. It discusses that Wall was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, earned a degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976, and was inspired to create Perl to solve a problem with existing tools. Key facts are provided about Perl, including that it is a stable, cross-platform language used for mission critical projects and has features like object-oriented syntax and support for modules, Unicode, and databases. The document also lists some facts about Larry Wall, including accomplishments and a quote attributed to him.

1. UNITED INSTITUTE OF
MANAGEMENT
AFFILIATED TO
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (APJAKTU),
LUCKNOW
SESSION 2021-22
BY
SHALU SINGH

2. CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 BIOGRAPHY
 EDUCATION
 PERSONAL LIFE
 WHY CREATED PERL
 PERL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
 PERL FEATURES
 FACTS ABOUT LARRY WALL

3. THE MAN BEHIND THE PERL
“LARRY WALL”

4. INTRODUCTION
 Larry Arnold Wall is an
American computer
programmer and author.
 He created
the Perl programming
language

5. BIOGRAPHY
 Larry Wall was born in September 27, 1954 in
south Los Angeles.
 Grew up in Bremerton,
Washington.
 Nationality : American
 Larry wall known for
Perl, Patch, Raku.

6. EDUCATION
 He graduated from high
school in Bremerton,
Washington
 higher education at Seattle
Pacific University in
1976.

7. PERSONAL LIFE
 Spouse Name – Gloria Wall
 Wall and his wife were studying linguistics
(Study of human language)
 Larry Wall has 4 child.

8. WHY WALL CREATED PERL?
 Larry stated that the creation of Perl has been
directly inspired by bumping into a problem
that the tools available couldn't solve in the
wanted parameters.

9. PERL PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE
 Perl is a stable, cross platform
programming language.
 Though Perl is not officially an
acronym but few people used it
as Practical Extraction and Report
Language.
 It is used for mission critical projects in
the public and private sectors.

10. PERL PROGRAMMING
LANGUAGE
 Perl is an Open Source software, licensed under
its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License
(GPL).
 Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
 PC Magazine announced Perl as the finalist for its 1998
Technical Excellence Award in the Development Tool
category.

11. PERL FEATURES
 It has a very simple Object-oriented programming
syntax.
 It is easily extendible as it supports 25,000 open
source modules.
 It supports Unicode.
 It includes powerful tools to process text to make
it compatible with mark-up languages like
HTML, XML.
 It supports third party database including Oracle,
MySQL and many others.

12. PERL FEATURES
It is open source software licensed under
GNU.
Many frameworks are written in Perl.
It can handle encrypted web data including
e-commerce transactions.
It is a cross platform language.
It offers a regular expression engine which
is able to transform any type of text.

13. FACTS ABOUT LARRY WALL
 He acknowledge 19th century writer George
Macdonald as a role model throughout his entire
life.
 He is the co-author of Programming Perl.
 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.

14. QUOTE OF LARRY WALL
“The three chief virtues of a
programmer are:
Laziness, Impatience and Hubris”

15. THANK YOU