Perl Hacks

Credits

About the Authors

chromatic works for O'Reilly Media, where he edits the free and open source web sites of the O'Reilly Network. In his spare time, he writes books such as this one. In the remaining minutes, he contributes to the CPAN, Perl 5, Perl 6, Parrot, and even Pugs. He lives just west of Portland, Oregon by a park and a creek and would like to finish more projects someday, including writing a novel, a comic book, a television show, and sleeping. Catch up on his hobbies at http://wgz.org/chromatic.

Dr. Damian Conway is a professional Perl boffin. As the author of numerous popular CPAN modules (http://search.cpan.org/~dconway) and two highly regarded books on Perl, he is also a widely sought-after conference speaker and runs an international IT training company—Thoughtstream (http://damian.conway.org)—which provides Perl training from beginner to masterclass level throughout Europe, North America, and Australasia. He spends most of his less-than-copious free time working with Larry Wall on the design of Perl 6. [Hack #5], [Hack #13], [Hack #14], [Hack #34], [Hack #54], [Hack #86], [Hack #90], [Hack #92], [Hack #93], [Hack #94], [Hack #95], [Hack #99], [Hack #100]

Earlier this century, displaying his usual stellar sense of timing, Curtis "Ovid" Poe switched from mainframes to web programming in Perl and promptly watched the dot-com industry implode. Despite this minor setback and working for several currently non-existent companies, Ovid stuck with Perl and actually discovered ...