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Damian Conway at the 2005 European Open Source Convention.

Damian Conway (born 1964) 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.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: Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Robert Menzies Building at the Clayton Campus Monash University is Australias largest university with about 55,000 students. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses objects to design applications and computer programs. ... CPAN is an acronym standing for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. ... Perl 6 is a planned major revision to the Perl programming language. ...

  • 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. An interlocutor (pronounced in-ter-lock-you-ter) describes someone who informally explains the views of a government and also can relay messages back to a government. ... Larry Wall Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. ...


He is one of the authors of the Significantly Prettier and Easier C++ Syntax. Significantly Prettier and Easier C++ Syntax or SPECS is an alternative syntactic binding for the semantics of C++ designed by Ben Werther and Damian Conway. ...


Books

  • Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques
  • Perl Best Practices
  • Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving (Hacks), with chromatic and Curtis "Ovid" Poe

External links

  • Biography from his consultancy's website
  • Damian Conway homepage at Monash
  • CPAN modules authored by Damian Conway
  • Other Damians can be found at the Damian Page

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Damian Conway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (182 words)
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 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.
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