Perl Hacks

About the Contributors

Perl is also a language with a rich and varied community of experts, wizards, gurus, goofs, and ne'er-do-wells. A few of the most colorful characters^[1] contributed to this book.

Adrian Howard still hopes that Lisp and Smalltalk will take over the world, but in the meantime gets paid for playing with Perl and Ruby amongst other things. Agile fanatic. Testing bigot. Usability zealot. Recently guilt tripped into being a Perl Grant Manager by Ovid. Saving up for a small castle to share with his beloved Kathryn and a small band of loyal Yorkshire Terriers. [Hack #15], [Hack #63]

Chris Dolan is a software developer living in Madison, Wisconsin. With a Ph.D. in Astronomy, he has a very strong math and science background. He started programming professionally as a teenager in the late 1980s. During his free time, he is an active participant in several online software development communities and is an avid bicyclist. [Hack #40]

David Landgren started using Perl 4.019 when awk was no longer sufficient to cope with the things he was trying to do. In 1999 he founded the Paris Perl Mongers and helped organize the YAPC::Europe 2003 conference. He currently works at a large French human resources firm, where he likes to go by the title of IT Operations Manager, using Perl everywhere. He spends what little spare time he has left writing summaries for the perl5-porters mailing list. Contact him at [e-mail]. [Hack #98]

David Wheeler, a longtime Perl hacker, made a ...