User since: May 24, 2001 at 21:29 UTC (24 years ago) Last here: Mar 11, 2018 at 22:18 UTC (7 years ago) Experience: 4078 Level: Priest (14) Writeups: 506 Location: Stanwood, WA, USA User's localtime: Jun 23, 2025 at 21:09 -07 Scratchpad: View For this user: Search nodes

I'm more or less an ex-Perl user now. I lead the open source Squeak project, and typically use Ruby where I used to use Perl.

I would like to find a new maintainer for Archive::Zip because I really don't have the time or memory for Perl to do a good job on it.

I'm the author and maintainer of Archive::Zip and I wrote but no longer maintain the new version of Algorithm::Diff.

Toby Everett and I wrote Class::Prototyped, which is an interesting Grand Unified Theory for Perl, merging protototype-based (Self-like) and class-based programming with such wonders as auto-delegation and a nice reflection system that makes it easy to do things like manipulate the inheritance structure, override subroutines privately, etc.

My Perl web page is http://bike-nomad.com/perl.

Probably my only other connection to the Perl community is that merlyn got me to sing karaoke one night at the Viking Lounge...