Mark Jason Dominus

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Mark Jason Dominus (born April 2, 1969) is one of the founders of Kibology. Dominus is also a famed Perl programmer. He was the managing editor of www.perl.com and was a columnist for The Perl Journal (www.tpj.com) for several years. Mark's other Perl-related articles have appeared in magazines such as Wired and IEEE Software. He recently published the long-awaited book Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs.

Dominus is the author of several well known and widely used Perl modules, including Text::Template, Memoize, and Tie::File. His work on Rx, a Perl regular expression debugger, won the 2000 Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility.

Dominus was born in New York City and still lives on the east coast. He is married and has several octopuses. Dominus is two courses short of earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During or shortly after his attendance at Rensselaer, he is rumored to have cut the Student Union in half with a chainsaw. [1]

He is also the author of a short story, "The Zahir", which is often mistaken on the Internet for another story of the same name, written by Jorge Luis Borges.