Lars Pensjö of

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is the original author of the LPMud

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engine and the LPC programming language, and is one of the founders of ''

Genesis LPMud ''Genesis LPMud'', a multi-player computer game, is the original LPMud founded in April 1989 by Lars Pensjö, now running on CD gamedriver and mudlib, and previously hosted by ''Chalmers Computer Society'', though hosting has since been moved to ...

'', notable for their part in the history of

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s as well as the Pike programming language. He attended Chalmers University of Technology in

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, Sweden, from 1980 to 1984. He was a member of the as of 2008 defunct Chalmers Datorförening ("CD"), after which the

CD gamedriver and mudlib A MUD (; originally multi-user dungeon, with later variants multi-user dimension and multi-user domain) is a Multiplayer video game, multiplayer Time-keeping systems in games#Real-time, real-time virtual world, usually Text-based game, text-bas ...

were named. Pensjö works for the software company

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. He lives in Torslanda, Gothenburg, together with his wife Marica Pensjö, a certified masseuse. They have three sons, Mikael, Jonas and Andreas. Pensjö's hobbies include running for the team Solvikingarna in Skatås, Gothenburg.

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