Mark Jason Dominus

Mark Jason Dominus (born : Transforming Programs with Programs .

Dominus is the author of several well known and widely used Perl modules, including Text::Template, Memoize, and Tie::File. His work on [http://perl.plover.com/Rx/ Rx], a Perl regular expression debugger, won the 2000 Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility.

Dominus was born in New York City and still lives on the east coast. He is married and has several Octopus. Dominus is two courses short of earning his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. During or shortly after his attendance at Rensselaer, he is rumored to have cut the Student Union in half with a chainsaw. [http://www.apricot.com/~jimcat/kibology/chainsaw.html]

He is also the author of a short story, The Zahir , which is often mistaken on the Internet for The Zahir, written by Jorge Luis Borges.