Damian Conway

Damian Conway
Damian Conway during his keynote at OSDC 2011
Born	October 5, 1964 (1964-10-05) (age 47)
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Author, Programmer, Professor, Speaker
Employer	Thoughtstream
Known for	Perl 6 design

Damian Conway (born 5 October 1964) is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.

Damian completed his B.Sc. (with honours) and Ph.D. at Monash. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to CPAN and Perl 6 language design, his entertaining and erudite conference talks, and his Perl training courses. He has contributed the following modules (among others) to CPAN:

• Parse::RecDescent
• Class::Contract
• Lingua::EN::Inflect
• Class::Std
• Class::Multimethods
• Text::Autoformat
• Switch
• NEXT
• Filter::Simple
• Smart::Comments
• Quantum::Superpositions (taken over by Steven Lembark)
• Lingua::Romana::Perligata

He has won the Larry Wall Award three times for CPAN contributions. His involvement in Perl 6 language design has been as an interlocutor and explicator of Larry Wall.

He is one of the authors of the Significantly Prettier and Easier C++ Syntax.

Books

• Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques (Manning Publications, 2000, ISBN 1884777791)
• Perl Best Practices (O'Reilly Media, 2005, ISBN 0596001738)
• (with "chromatic" and Curtis "Ovid" Poe) Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving (Hacks) (O'Reilly Media, 2006, ISBN 0596526741)

External links

• Biography from his consultancy's website
• Damian Conway's homepage at Monash
• CPAN modules authored by Damian Conway

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Name	Conway, Damian
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Date of birth	1964
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