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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Larry Wall

1954 - Today

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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is an American computer programmer, linguist and author. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Larry Wall has received more than 554,001 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Larry Wall is the 61st most popular computer scientist (down from 56th in 2019), the 4,019th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,812th in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Computer Scientist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 550k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Larry Wall ranks 61 out of 201Before him are James Gosling, Amir Pnueli, Juris Hartmanis, Jacques Vallée, Alfred Aho, and Sergey Lebedev. After him are Ole-Johan Dahl, Larry Tesler, Gary Kildall, Adam Osborne, Dana Scott, and Mary Kenneth Keller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Larry Wall ranks 148Before him are Benoît Sokal, Abdelaziz Djerad, Didier Six, Kim Pyong-il, Leung Chun-ying, and Thomas de Maizière. After him are Herbert Hainer, James Pickens Jr., Howard Stern, Andrés Pastrana Arango, Giancarlo Antognoni, and Alice Krige.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Larry Wall ranks 4,019 out of 18,182Before him are David Graeber (1961), William Stanley Jr. (1858), Anne Francis (1930), Michael Nouri (1945), Lenny Bruce (1925), and Bud Abbott (1897). After him are Amadeo Giannini (1870), Jerome Kern (1885), Kevin Feige (1973), Sarah Clarke (1972), Bix Beiderbecke (1903), and Bobby Vinton (1935).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Larry Wall ranks 37Before him are Charles Bachman (1924), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Alan Perlis (1922), Edwin Catmull (1945), Vernor Vinge (1944), and Gil Amelio (1943). After him are Larry Tesler (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Dana Scott (1932), Mary Kenneth Keller (1913), John Henry Holland (1929), and John Cocke (1925).