Chromatic is a writer and

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best known for his work in the

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

programming language. He lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. He wrote ''Extreme Programming Pocket Guide and the lead author of Perl Hacks'' , co-wrote ''Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook'', and is an uncredited contributor to ''The Art of Agile Development''. He has a music degree. Also, he has contributed to CPAN, Perl 5, Perl 6, and

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. In 2009, he founded Modern Perl Books, in part to revitalize the world of Perl and to publish materials that other publishers had neglected. In 2010, he released the book ''Modern Perl'' in print and in electronic form, with the latter redistributable freely (though with a suggested donation). An updated edition was released in 2012, with the entire text online.

CPAN

While he may be currently known for the module "Modern::Perl", Chromatic originally wrote "Test::Builder", which is the foundation of most testing in the Perl world.

Perl 6

Chromatic spent several years as the Perl 6 project secretary. He is one of the biggest proponents of "roles" in Perl 6 (what some other programming languages refer to as " traits").

Parrot

Chromatic has been a core developer of

. He was also secretary of the Parrot Foundation from 2008 until 2010.Who's Who in Parrot
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References

External links

chromatic's personal homepage

chromatic's modules on CPAN
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