Larry Wall Quotes
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.
Wall, Larry. "Re: Virginity." perl5-porters Mailing List, 1998.
In the programs she is describing, young people make virginity pledges. However when research is done on these programs, it turns out that about half of the youngsters that take the virginity pledges engage in sex within the next 5 years—the same percentage of young people who do not take any pledges or participate in programs to delay premarital sex. However, taking a counterculture approach for what 50 years ago was the mainstream culture shows the extensive cultural change that America has made.
Larry Arnold Wall is an American computer programmer and author. He created the Perl programming language.