In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William X. Walsh" writes:
>
> On 17-Feb-99 Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Bill Lovell wrote:
> >
> > > which I call the "Randall Schwartz invention" (he's the originator
> > > of PERL who was convicted of hacking the Intel computers),
> >
> > I always thought Larry Wall was the originator of PERL.
> >
> > el
>
> Yes, you are correct here Dr Lisse.
> Randal Schwartz did however author Learning Perl (2nd edition was
> also with Tom Christiansen), and co-authored Programming Perl with
> Larry Wall and Tom Christiansen.
Which are both on the shelf next to my desk :-)-O
el