# Larry Wall (@larry-wall)

Larry Wall is a programmer and linguist best known for creating the Perl programming language.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Larry Wall's public record._

## Topics

- [Community legacy](/@larry-wall/community-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Creating Perl](/@larry-wall/creating-perl.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Language philosophy](/@larry-wall/language-philosophy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.perl.org/about.html
- blog: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist
- blog: https://computerhistory.org/profile/larry-wall/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "larry-wall", "question": "…"}`.