X-Nico

unusual facts about Perl programming language



Ashish Gulhati

He is an open source developer and the author of several extensions to the Perl programming language, including PerlVision, Crypt::GPG, Crypt::Schnorr::AuthSign, Persistence::Database::SQL and Persistence::Object::Postgres.

Brad Cox

Even though Brad Cox invented his own programming language, Objective-C, which he used in his early career, he currently (as of 2004) conducts most of his work in other programming languages, namely Perl, Python, Ruby, Java and XML.

Higher-Order Perl

Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs (ISBN 1-55860-701-3), is a book about the Perl programming language written by Mark Jason Dominus with the goal to teach Perl programmers with a strong C and Unix background how to use techniques with roots in functional programming languages like Lisp that are available in Perl as well, but less known.


see also