Linus Torvalds vs. Larry Wall
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Linus Torvalds
1969 – present
Technology
Finland
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
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"I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happen to be on…"
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Larry Wall
1954 – present
Technology
United States
Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
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"Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'."
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Connections
Larry Wall was influenced by Linus Torvalds
Overlapped from 1969
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