OT: Larry Wall

[Michael Hudson]

Gerrit Holl <gerrit at nl.linux.org> writes:

> I saw this message on python-checkins:
> 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	ACKS NEWS 
> (...)
> > diff -C2 -d -r1.247 -r1.248
> > *** ACKS	2 Sep 2003 02:13:42 -0000	1.247
> > --- ACKS	8 Oct 2003 21:08:29 -0000	1.248
> > ***************
> > *** 573,576 ****
> > --- 573,577 ----
> >   Richard Walker
> >   Larry Wall
> > + Wojtek Walczak
> >   Greg Ward
> >   Barry Warsaw
> 
> Huh? Has Larry Wall actually contributed to Python? Kewl :)

A little CVS work suggests he was added to Misc/ACKS on 1997-10-07 (my
19th birthday :-) along with a bunch of other people with the helpful
checkin comment:

    Whole bunch of additions...

:-)

Cheers,
mwh

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