Mark Jason Dominus
Overview
Kibology
Kibology is a parody religion. It grew out of the Usenet newsgroup alt.religion.kibology named after Kibo, the central figure. Practitioners of Kibology are called Kibologists or Kibozos....
and a leading 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. He was the managing editor of perl.com and was a columnist for The Perl Journal for several years. Mark's other Perl-related articles have appeared in magazines such as Wired and IEEE Software
IEEE Software
IEEE Software is a broad-based practitioner-oriented magazine of IEEE Computer Society targeting software professionals, including business analysts, requirements engineers, designers, architects, developers, process improvement experts, testers, quality engineers, and project managers...
. His book Higher-Order Perl
Higher-Order Perl
Higher-Order Perl , ISBN 1-55860-701-3 , is a book written by Mark Jason Dominus with the goal to teach Perl programmers with a strong C and Unix background how to use techniques with roots in functional programming languages like Lisp that are available in Perl as well, but less known. The book is...
: Transforming Programs with Programs was published in 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann.
Dominus is the author of several Perl modules, including Text::Template, Memoize, and Tie::File.
Quotations
A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!"
You can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! (and other choice quotes, like "You are a stupid asshole. Shut the fuck up." and "Look at the error message! ... The error message is God!")