"Weird guy makes an OS because God told him so" sounds less hilarious if you're aware of why the Perl programming language exists.
The entry for 1987 is:
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1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.
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[1] http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
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Wall's Christian faith has influenced some of the terminology of Perl, such as the name itself, a biblical reference to the "pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:46). Similar references are the function name bless, and the organization of Perl 6 design documents with categories such as apocalypse and exegesis.
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Also in [2] he alludes to his faith having played a major part if not in the decision to create Perl then at least in the design decisions (e.g. TMTOWTDI) he made.
He's not as overtly religious (and most definitely not as mentally unstable) as the author of TempleOS, but he's certainly far above the norm compared to other well-known creators of programming languages.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
[2]: http://interviews-beta.slashdot.org/story/02/09/06/1343222/l...
Just be glad no programming language has tried to recruit users with promises of a pleasurable afterlife yet. The "wars" between the various programming language communities may be bad enough as it is, but at least they're not blowing each other up yet.