Damian Conway

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Damian Conway at the 2005 European Open Source Convention.

Damian Conway was, until August 2005, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University. He is a prominent member of the Perl community and exponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. Damian completed his B.S. (with honours) and Ph.D. at Monash. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to CPAN and Perl 6 language design, his entertaining and erudite skills as a speaker, and his ability to teach Perl. The following are numbered among his contributions to CPAN:

Parse::RecDescent
Class::Contract
Lingua::EN::Inflect
Class::Std
Class::Multimethods
Text::Autoformat
Switch
NEXT
Filter::Simple
Smart::Comments
Quantum::Superpositions (taken over by Steven Lembark)
Lingua::Romana::Perligata

He has won the Larry Wall Award three times for CPAN contributions. His involvement in Perl 6 language design has been as an interlocutor and explicator of Larry Wall.

He is one of the authors of the Significantly Prettier and Easier C++ Syntax.