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Lurking is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Linguist
Programmer
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LA
California
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Larry Arnold Wall
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Omniscience

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