in reply to Why do People like larry or David Cross write free language and distribue
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You may find some of Larry's reasons here:
- VIDEO: 45 Minute Interview of Larry Wall on BigThink
- Perl, the first postmodern computer language
- As for the motivations for building on shared knowledge:
- History of free and open-source software
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