Learning Perl: Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible

About Brian D FoyRandal L SchwartzTom Phoenix

Randal L. Schwartz is a two-decade veteran of the software industry. He is skilled in software design system administration security technical writing and training. Randal has coauthored the must-have standards: Programming Perl Learning Perl Learning Perl for Win32 Systems and Effective Perl Learning and is a regular columnist for WebTechniques PerformanceComputing SysAdmin and Linux magazines. He is also a frequent contributor to the Perl newsgroups and has moderated comp.lang.perl.announce since its inception. His offbeat humor and technical mastery have reached legendary proportions worldwide (but he probably started some of those legends himself). Randal's desire to give back to the Perl community inspired him to help create and provide initial funding for The Perl Institute. He is also a founding board member of the Perl Mongers (perl.org) the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization. Since 1985 Randal has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services Inc. Randal can be reached for comment at merlyn@stonehenge.com or (503) 777-0095 and welcomes questions on Perl and other related topics. brian d foy is a prolific Perl trainer and writer and runs The Perl Review to help people use and understand Perl through educational consulting code review and more. He's a frequent speaker at Perl conferences. He's the co-author of Learning Perl Intermediate Perl and Effective Perl Programming and the author of Mastering Perl. He was an instructor and author for Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009 a Perl user since he was a physics graduate student and a die-hard Mac user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first Perl user group the New York Perl Mongers as well as the Perl advocacy nonprofit Perl Mongers Inc. which helped form more than 200 Perl user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the core Perl documentation several modules on CPAN and some stand-alone scripts. Tom Phoenix has been working in the field of education since 1982. After more than thirteen years of dissections explosions work with interesting animals and high-voltage sparks during his work at a science museum he started teaching Perl classes for Stonehenge Consulting Services where he's worked since 1996. Since then he has traveled to many interesting locations so you might see him soon at a Perl Mongers' meeting. When he has time he answers questions on Usenet's comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.moderated newsgroups and contributes to the development and usefulness of Perl. Besides his work with Perl Perl hackers and related topics Tom spends his time on amateur cryptography and speaking Esperanto. His home is in Portland Oregon.