Brian D Foy

	Brian D Foy is the former publisher and editor of ''The Perl Review'', a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including '' Learning Perl'', '' Intermediate Perl'' and '' Mastering Perl''. He is also the founder of Perl Mongers, the founder of the White Camel Awards, a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC ( Yet Another Perl Conference). He is the author of multiple Perl modules on CPAN and maintains the ''perlfaq'' portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009. PerlPowerTools In 2014 he revitalized the ''PerlPowerTools'' AKA ''PPT'' project. In February 1999, Tom Christiansen Thomas S. "Tom" Christiansen (born February 13, 1963), nicknamed tchrist or occasionally thoth, is a Unix developer and user known for his work with the Perl programming language. Christiansen worked for several years at TSR Hobbies before atte ... announced the PerlPowerTools project to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Learning Perl ''Learning Perl'', also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly Media. The first edition (1993) was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz, and covered Perl 4. All subsequent editions have covered Perl 5. The second (1997) edition was coauthored with Tom Christiansen and the third (2001) edition was coauthored with Tom Phoenix. The fourth (2005), fifth (2008), sixth (2011), and seventh (2016) editions were written by Schwartz, Phoenix, and brian d foy. According to the 5th edition of the book, previous editions have sold more than 500,000 copies. Unlike '' Programming Perl'', this book is aimed at computer programmers new to Perl. The publisher offers a complete set of code examples presented in the 3rd Edition book. Schwartz selected the world of ''The Flintstones'' for the examples in this book, giving rise to the somewhat frequent use of ''Fred'' and ''Barney'' as metasyntactic variables, rather than the clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Intermediate Perl ''Intermediate Perl'' is a book about the Perl programming language by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy and Tom Phoenix, published in 2006 by O'Reilly Media. It was released as a retitled second edition of ''Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules'' () by Schwartz and Phoenix, published by O'Reilly Media in 2003 to favorable reviews. A second edition of ''Intermediate Perl'' was released in 2012. ''Intermediate Perl'' is a follow-up to ''Learning Perl''. Just as ''Learning Perl'' features a llama on its cover, its follow-up features an alpaca. For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as, respectively, "the llama book" and "the alpaca book". This book is written in very much the same style as its predecessor. It picks up right where ''Learning Perl'' left off, and takes the reader from the most basic features of Perl references all the way through to creating Perl modules and distributing them to CPAN The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mastering Perl is the former publisher and editor of ''The Perl Review'', a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including '' Learning Perl'', '' Intermediate Perl'' and '' Mastering Perl''. He is also the founder of Perl Mongers, the founder of the White Camel Awards, a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl Conference and YAPC ( Yet Another Perl Conference). He is the author of multiple Perl modules on CPAN and maintains the ''perlfaq'' portions of the core Perl documentation. He was a partner at Stonehenge Consulting Services from 1998 to 2009. PerlPowerTools In 2014 he revitalized the ''PerlPowerTools'' AKA ''PPT'' project. In February 1999, Tom Christiansen announced the PerlPowerTools project to provide a unified BSD toolbox, i.e. a reimplementation of the classic Unix command set in pure Perl. Perl is the same (mostly) everywhere you go and the same programs could run the same everywhere instead of being reimplemented for each platform. Bibli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Yet Another Perl Conference Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC), from 2016–2019 called The Perl Conference (TPC), from 2020 on The Perl and Raku Conference, is a series of conferences discussing the Perl programming language, usually organized under the auspices of The Perl Foundation and Yet Another Society, a "non-profit corporation for the advancement of collaborative efforts in computer and information sciences". The name is an homage to yacc, "Yet Another Compiler Compiler". The first YAPC was held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US on June 24 and June 25, 1999. Organizer Kevin Lenzo assembled 31 different speakers into the schedule on various Perl-related topics. The idea of a low-cost Perl conference quickly spread with a European version of YAPC established in 2000, Israel in 2003, Australia in 2004, Asia and Brazil in 2005, and Russia in 2008. The only continents never to have hosted a YAPC are Africa and Antarctica. In 2016, YAPC rebranded itself as The Perl Confer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	CPAN The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors. ''CPAN'' can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer (somewhat like a package manager). Most software on CPAN is free and open source software. History CPAN was conceived in 1993 and has been active online since October 1995. It is based on the CTAN model and began as a place to unify the structure of scattered Perl archives. Role Like many programming languages, Perl has mechanisms to use external libraries of code, making one file contain common routines used by several programs. Perl calls these ''modules''. Perl modules are typically installed in one of several directories whose paths are placed in the Perl interpreter when it is first compiled; on Unix-like ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tom Christiansen Thomas S. "Tom" Christiansen (born February 13, 1963), nicknamed tchrist or occasionally thoth, is a Unix developer and user known for his work with the Perl programming language. Christiansen worked for several years at TSR Hobbies before attending the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he earned B.A.'s in Spanish and Computer Science, and an M.S. in Computer Science. He worked for five years at Convex Computer. In 1993, he established the Tom Christiansen Perl Consultancy, located in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In 2010, he joined the Biomedical Text Mining Group at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Christiansen, with a C- and-Unix background, was one of the early contributors to Perl after its public release in 1987. He presented the first public Perl tutorial in 1989 and wrote the first academic paper to highlight Perl in 1990. He was the author of much of the core Perl documentation, including the manual pages perlfaq and perltoot, development of ''perl.co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Programming Perl ''Programming Perl'', best known as the Camel Book among programmers, is a book about writing programs using the Perl programming language, revised as several editions (1991-2012) to reflect major language changes since Perl version 4. Editions have been co-written by the creator of Perl, Larry Wall, along with Randal L. Schwartz, then Tom Christiansen and then Jon Orwant. Published by O'Reilly Media, the book is considered the canonical reference work for Perl programmers. With over 1,000 pages, the various editions contain complete descriptions of each Perl language version and its interpreter. Examples range from trivial code snippets to the highly complex expressions for which Perl is widely known. The camel book editions are also noted for being written in an approachable and humorous style. History The first edition, which gained the nickname "the pink camel" due to its pink spine, was originally published in January 1991 and covered version 4 of the Perl language. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	O'Reilly Media O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books, produces tech conferences, and provides an online learning platform. Its distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of its book covers. Company Early days The company began in 1978 as a private consulting firm doing technical writing, based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. In 1984, it began to retain publishing rights on manuals created for Unix vendors. A few 70-page "Nutshell Handbooks" were well-received, but the focus remained on the consulting business until 1988. After a conference displaying O'Reilly's preliminary Xlib manuals attracted significant attention, the company began increasing production of manuals and books. The original cover art consisted of animal designs developed by Edie Freedman because she thought that Unix program names sounded like "weird animals". Global Network Navigator In 1993 O'Reilly Media creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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