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    Larry Wall Personality Type, MBTI

    What is the personality type of Larry Wall? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Larry Wall from Computer Science and what is the personality traits.

    Larry Wall
    INFP

    INFP (4w5)

    Larry Wall personality type is INFP, which means that he is most comfortable when doing independent work. For example, he created the first version of the web browser, and then the version of it that still runs today. He also created the first web page with graphics, so he is the developer who created the first graphical web page.

    Wall's personality type is INFP, which means he is most comfortable doing solo work.

    He has a very strong sense of ethics (anything that goes against his morals and values), and he will break any rule to do what he thinks is right. There are many stories of him setting up his own companies to do things his way.

    For example, he wrote the original code for the web browser, but made it impossible to use it on a non-UNIX computer (this included Macs). When Apple took over the UNIX code base and made it open-source, he then created a version of the browser that ran on Apple computers. He also did this for Internet Explorer and Netscape. That is why some people refer to him as the "father of Internet Explorer".

    He also had a major conflict with Microsoft, when he took down their .

    Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is an American computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language.  Wall grew up in Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976, majoring in chemistry and music and later pre-medicine with a hiatus of several years working in the university's computing center before graduating with a bachelor's degree in Natural and Artificial Languages.While in graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, Wall and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it.

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