Damian Conway

Damian Conway was, until August 2005, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Monash University. He is a prominent member of the Perl community and exponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. Damian completed his B.S. (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 skills as a speaker, and his ability to teach Perl. The following are numbered among his contributions to CPAN:

Parse::RecDescent

Class::Contract

Lingua::EN::Inflect

Class::Std

Class::Multimethods

Text::Autoformat

Switch

NEXT

Filter::Simple

Smart::Comments

Quantum::Superpositions

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.

=External links=

*[http://damian.conway.org/About_us/Bio_formal.html Biography from his consultancy s web site] *[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/ Home page at Monash]