书名：Perl最佳实践

作者：Damian Conway 著

译者：O'Reilly Taiwan公司 编译

国内出版社：东南大学出版社

出版时间：2008年02月

页数：504

书号：978-7-5641-1009-3

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

Damian Conway holds a PhD in computer science and is an honorary Associate
Professor with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia.
Currently he runs an international IT training company—Thoughtstream—which
provides programmer development from beginner to masterclass level throughout
Europe, North America, and Australasia.
Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for Practical
Utility.The best technical paper at the annual Perl Conference was subsequently
named in his honour.He has been a member of the technical committee for The Perl
Conference, a keynote speaker at many Open Source conferences, is a former columnist
for The Perl Journal, and is author of the book Object Oriented Perl.In 2001
Damian received the first “Perl Foundation Development Grant” and spent 20
months working on projects for the betterment of Perl.
A popular speaker and trainer, he is also the author of numerous well-known Perl
modules, including Parse::RecDescent (a sophisticated parsing tool), Class::Contract
(design-by-contract programming in Perl), Lingua::EN::Inflect (rule-based English
transformations for text generation), Class::Multimethods (multiple dispatch polymorphism),
Text::Autoformat (intelligent automatic reformatting of plaintext),
Switch (Perl’s missing case statement), NEXT (resumptive method dispatch),
Filter::Simple (Perl-based source code manipulation), Quantum::Superpositions
(auto-parallelization of serial code using a quantum mechanical metaphor), and
Lingua::Romana::Perligata (programming in Latin).
Most of Damian’s time is now spent working with Larry Wall on the design of the
new Perl 6 programming language.

 

 

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