Jarkko Hietaniemi
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Jarkko Hietaniemi is a Finnish Perl programmer best known as the creator and "master librarian" of CPAN. Otherwise, he has originated several Perl modules, and coauthored the book "Mastering Algorithms with Perl. He has been the maintainer of perl 5.7.x that lead into perl-5.8.0 5.8.1, but later stepped down from maintaining the perl 5.8.x branch.
