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Damian Conway
Damian Conway
	; Damian Conway giving a talk in Lausanne on 17th of August 2009
Occupation	Author, Programmer, Professor, Speaker
Employer	Thoughtstream
Known for	Perl 6 design

Damian Conway (born 1964) is a prominent member of the Perl community, a proponent of object-oriented programming, and the author of several books. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University.

Damian completed his B.Sc. (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 conference talks, and his Perl training courses. He has contributed the following modules (among others) to CPAN:

Parse::RecDescent
Class::Contract
Lingua::EN::Inflect
Class::Std
Class::Multimethods
Text::Autoformat
Switch
NEXT
Filter::Simple
Smart::Comments
Quantum::Superpositions (taken over by Steven Lembark)
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.

He is one of the authors of the Significantly Prettier and Easier C++ Syntax.

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Object Oriented Perl: A Comprehensive Guide to Concepts and Programming Techniques (Manning Publications, 2000, ISBN 1884777791)
Perl Best Practices (O'Reilly Media, 2005, ISBN 0596001738)
(with "chromatic" and Curtis "Ovid" Poe) Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving (Hacks) (O'Reilly Media, 2006, ISBN 0596526741)

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