Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) co-founded the online social directory, Facebook, with Harvard roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes. Together they have grown the site to be used by more than eight million people at over 2,100 universities, 22,000 high schools and 8,000 corporations. Dustin currently serves as the CTO of Facebook and works out of the company's Palo Alto office. For other uses, see Facebook (disambiguation). ... Mark Zuckerberg in a photo from his Facebook profile. ... Chris Hughes (born on November 26, 1983) co-founded the online social directory, Facebook, in 2004 with Harvard roomates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. ... Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focused on technical issues in a company. ... For other uses, see Facebook (disambiguation). ... Downtown Palo Alto Palo Alto is a city in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. Palo Alto is located at the northern end of the Silicon Valley, and is home to Stanford University (which is technically located in an adjacent area — Stanford, California...

There is a legend that Dustin learned to program computers by reading only the book Perl for Dummies, even though Facebook isn't even written in Perl. Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below) is a dynamic procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ...