Damian Conway
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| Damian Conway | |
 2005 European Open Source Convention
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| Occupation | Author, Programmer, Professor, Speaker |
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| Employers | Thoughtstream |
| Known for | Perl 6 design |
Damian Conway (born 1964) is a prominent member of the Perl community and exponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.
Damian completed his B.Sc. (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.
[edit] Books
- Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques (Manning Publications, 2000, ISBN 1884777791)
- Perl Best Practices (O'Reilly Media, 2005, ISBN 0596001738)
- (with "chromatic" and Curtis "Ovid" Poe) Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving (Hacks) (O'Reilly Media, 2006, ISBN 0596526741)
[edit] External links
- Biography from his consultancy's website
- Damian Conway homepage at Monash
- CPAN modules authored by Damian Conway
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