Perl was originally written by Larry Wall while he was working at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Labs.
Perl started life as a "glue" language for Larry and his officemates, allowi.
The term patch used for this activity is now widespread.
Larry is an Internet legend, known not just for Perl, but as the author of the UNIX utilities rn, one of the original Usenet newsreaders, and patch, a tremendously useful tool that takes a list of differences between two files and allows you to turn one into the other.
Perl was originally written by Larry Wall while he was working at NASA\'s Jet Propulsion Labs