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.
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