# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/larry-wall
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:25:11.428Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/larry-wall"
name: "Larry Wall"
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description: "Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool."
tagline: "American computer programmer and author"
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birthDate: "1954-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump