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# History
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Larry Wall developed Perl in 1986. He was a systems programmer on a project that was developing multilevel, secure wide area
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networks. Larry was in charge of an installation. Larry's primary job was system support "guru". During this stint, he developed
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networks. Larry was in charge of installation. Larry's primary job was system support "guru". During this stint, he developed
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several useful UNIX tools such as rn, patch, and warp. Perl was developed in response to a management requirement for a
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configuration management and control system. Larry's manager asked him to produce reports. Larry's first thought was to use awk to
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produce the reports. Awk couldn't handle opening and closing multiple files based on information in the files. Larry didn't want to

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