Sean Michael Burke is a

Perl Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offici ...

programmer, author, and linguist. He was a columnist for ''The Perl Journal'' from 1998 and has written several dozen

Perl module A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language. Technically, it is a particular set of conventions for using Perl's package mechanism that has become universally adopted. A module defines its source code to ...

s for

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, as well as books for

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Software

Burke's Perl modules include the

HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...

parsing Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is the process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar. The term ''parsing'' comes from Lati ...

module HTML::TreeBuilder, and Sort::ArbBiLex (arbitrary bi-level lexicographic

sorting Sorting refers to ordering data in an increasing or decreasing manner according to some linear relationship among the data items. # ordering: arranging items in a sequence ordered by some criterion; # categorizing: grouping items with similar pro ...

), used to generate sorting functions for language-specific sorting conventions. Some of Burke's modules, including Class::ISA, I18N::LangTags, and Locale::Maketext, have become part of the standard distribution of Perl.Standard Perl distribution: file list
Retrieved 2012-11-15. Locale::Maketext is also the basis of the internationalization layer in Request Tracker.Vincent, Jesse. p. 160: section "Internationalization", in Chapter 10, "Development Essentials", ''RT Essentials''. 2002.

, . Burke also wrote ''perlpodspec'', the specification for the Pod (" Plain Old Documentation") markup language, which is used for documenting Perl and its modules, and the current generation of Pod parsers, such as Pod::Simple,Chapter 15, "Working with Pod", in foy, brian d (2007). ''

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 ...

''. Sebastopol:

. . which are used for generating the HTML documentation on the main CPAN search engine, search.cpan.org.

Bibliography

* Burke, Sean M. ''Perl & LWP'',

, 2002, . * Burke, Sean M. ''RTF Pocket Guide'',

, 2003, . * Burke, Sean M. Chapter 5.3: "The design of online lexicons" (p240-249) in ''A Practical Guide to Lexicography'', van Sterkenburg, Piet (editor). A textbook, book #6 in the series ''Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice''.

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, 2003. . * Phone, Wilhelmina; Olson, Maureen; Martinez, Matilda. (Authors.) ''Dictionary of

Jicarilla Apache Jicarilla Apache (, Jicarilla language: Jicarilla Dindéi), one of several loosely organized autonomous bands of the Eastern Apache, refers to the members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation currently living in New Mexico and speaking a Southern Athab ...

: Abáachi Mizaa Iłkeeʼ Siijai''. Axelrod, Melissa; Gómez de García, Jule; Lachler, Jordan; and Burke, Sean (Eds.). Author of its section "Technical Notes on the Production of the Dictionary". University of New Mexico Press. 2007. . * Selected ''Perl Journal'' articles appear in all three volumes of ''Best of The Perl Journal''.Orwant, Jon (ed.), ''Games, Diversions & Perl Culture'', 2003,

, .Orwant, Jon (ed.), ''Web, Graphics & Perl/Tk Programming'', 2003,

, .Orwant, Jon (ed.), ''Computer Science & Perl Programming'', 2002,

, .

References

External links

* Burke's homepage: http://interglacial.com
Burke's CPAN modules

''Perl Journal'' articles
on Burke's website
''Perl & LWP''
available to read free on Burke's website * Additional material to the "RTF Pocket Guide": http://interglacial.com/rtf/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Burke, Sean M. Perl people Living people Year of birth missing (living people)