I didn't know that, but as another commenter point out in another thread, part of he humor about pearl is that Larry Wall is really religious:
While in graduate school at University of California, Berkeley, Wall
and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention afterwards of
finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing
system for it. They would then use this new writing system to translate
various texts into the language, among them the Bible. Due to health
reasons these plans were cancelled, and they remained in the United
States, where Larry instead joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
after he finished graduate school.
I didn't know that, but as another commenter point out in another thread, part of he humor about pearl is that Larry Wall is really religious:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Education