Jarkko Hietaniemi
Encyclopedia
Jarkko Hietaniemi is a Finnish
Perl
programmer best known as the creator and "master librarian" of CPAN
. Otherwise, he has originated several Perl modules, and coauthored the book "Mastering Algorithms with Perl. He has been the maintainer of perl 5.7.x that lead into perl-5.8.0 5.8.1, but later stepped down from maintaining the perl 5.8.x branch.
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
Perl
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
programmer best known as the creator and "master librarian" of CPAN
CPAN
CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of nearly 100,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations...
. Otherwise, he has originated several Perl modules, and coauthored the book "Mastering Algorithms with Perl. He has been the maintainer of perl 5.7.x that lead into perl-5.8.0 5.8.1, but later stepped down from maintaining the perl 5.8.x branch.
Citation sources
- http://users.tkk.fi/~jhi/perl.html