Audrey Tang
Chinese name
Simplified:	唐凤 (orig. 唐宗汉)
Traditional:	唐鳳 (orig. 唐宗漢)
Hanyu Pinyin:	Táng Fèng (orig. Táng Zōnghàn)
Wade-Giles:	T'ang2 Fêng4 (orig T'ang2 Tsung1 Han4)

Audrey Tang (born April 18, 1981; formerly known as Autrijus Tang) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing."^[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 正體字/繁體字, Simplified Chinese: 正体字/繁体字) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... It has been suggested that Pinyin method be merged into this article or section. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... 3 programmers. ...

Biography

Tang showed an early interest in computers, beginning to learn Perl at age 12.^[2] Two years later, he dropped out of high school, as he was unable to adapt to student life.^[1] By the year 2000, at the age of 19, he had already held positions in software companies, and worked in California's Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur.^[2] In February 2006, he underwent sex reassignment surgery and changed both his English and Chinese names. Taiwan's Eastern Television reports that she has an IQ of 180.^[1] She is a vocal proponent for autodidacticism and individualist anarchism.^{[citation needed]} Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Eastern Television (ETTV, Traditional Chinese: ) is a television channel in the Republic of China on Taiwan that is operated by the Eastern Broadcasting Group, which also operates the online news site ETtoday. ... IQ tests are designed to give approximately this Gaussian distribution. ... Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) is self-education or self-directed learning. ... Individualist Anarchism is an anarchist philosophical tradition that has a strong emphasis on sovereignty of the individual[1] and is generally opposed to collectivism[2]. The tradition appears most often in the United States, most notably in regard to its advocacy of private property. ...

Free software contributions

Tang is best known for initiating and leading the Pugs project, a joint effort from the Haskell and Perl communities to implement the Perl 6 language;^[3] she has also made contributions to internationalization and localization efforts for several Free Software programs, including SVK, Request Tracker (for which she also wrote a large portion of the code) and Slash, as well as heading Traditional Chinese translation efforts for various Open Source-related books.^[1][2] On CPAN, Tang initiated over 100 Perl projects between June 2001 and July 2006, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR), a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5.^[4] She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN.^{[citation needed]} In 2005, she was a speaker at O'Reilly's European Open Source Convention in Amsterdam.^[5] Pugs is a compiler and interpreter for the Perl 6 programming language, started on February 1, 2005 by Audrey Tang. ... Haskell is a standardized pure functional programming language with non-strict semantics, named after the logician Haskell Curry. ... Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Perl 6 is a new major revision of the Perl programming language. ... Internationalization and localization[1] are means of adapting products such as publications, hardware or software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... SVK is a decentralized version control system written in Perl, with a design comparable to BitKeeper and GNU arch. ... RTs ticket list interface An individual RT ticket Request Tracker, commonly abbreviated to RT, is an open-source ticket-tracking system written in Perl used to co-ordinate tasks and manage requests among a community of users. ... Slash (a backronym for Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is the open source collection of Perl modules and stand-alone programs which runs Slashdot, one of the oldest and most popular collaborative weblogs in existence. ... Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 正體字/繁體字, Simplified Chinese: 正体字/繁体字) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... CPAN is an acronym standing for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. ... Smoke test is a term used in plumbing, electronics, and computer software development. ... In cryptography, a digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate the security properties of a signature in digital, rather than written, form. ... Amsterdam Location Flag Country Netherlands Province North Holland Population 741,329 (1 August 2006) Agglomeration - 1. ...

Publications

• Translator for the Chinese version of Aker, Brian; Krieger, David (November 2003). 架設 Slash 社群網站 (Running Weblogs with Slash). O'Reilly Taiwan. ISBN 986-7794-22-2. 

References

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Audrey Tang

• Audrey's Pugs Journal and Personal Blog.
• An interview with Autrijus by Debby (in Mandarin)
• Podcast interview with Audrey on Perlcast
• Perl Archive Toolkit