Hi,
I already attended some Debian Perl meetings at DebConf 9 and lurk on
this list since somewhen back in 2007. Since 10 days, I'm a DD
(account name "abe") and I currently have one lib*-perl[1] package
which should get a packaging update. So I thought, now is the right
time to join the Debian Perl Team. :-)
[1] http://packages.debian.org/libxml-rss-simplegen-perl
A little bit about my Perl background:
After Turbo Pascal and several Lisp dialects (Scheme, Emacs Lisp,
Common Lisp), Perl was more or less the third higher programming
language I learned (not counting bourne shell scripting and PostScript
;-).
As a student at university I gave Perl beginners courses although I
neither knew about references in Perl back then nor had I understood
the function of the shebang line at that time. ;-)
I started writing CGI scripts in Perl, wrote website frameworks with
WML (the Engelschall WML) and Embperl. This also got me my first job
as web and ftp admin, where I came in contact with ancient Perl 4
stuff as well as object oriented Perl. (Not in the same scripts of
course. ;-)
My first "big" Perl application was wApua[2], a WML (the WAP WML)
browser based on Perl/Tk, libwww-perl and a raped HTML::Parser I
needed because there was no free WAP WML browser for SunOS 4.x. :-)
wApua was also one of my first Debian packages.
[2] http://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/wApua/
http://packages.debian.org/wapua
During my time at ECOS I also once gave a talk at YAPC::Europe about
Embperl.
After university I worked for nearly five years at ECOS, the Embperl
forge. There I really learned Perl (from Apache.pm co-author Gerald
Richter), got in deeper contact with Embperl, mod_perl, ActiveState
Perl, memory leaks in perl scripts (BTDT ;-), etc.
Another thing I learned during my time at ECOS was to read foreign
perl code, partially by enjoying JAPH and other perl fun stuff.
Nowadays I consider Perl being my favourite and therefore primary
programming language. And if my brain dumps pseudo code, it's usually
executable with a Perl interpreter. ;-)
I live now in Zurich and work at ETH Zurich as system administrator.
And of course, I grok Perl there, too. I even still do some Embperl
here. And I'm a member of Zurich.pm -- one out of three. ;-)
I think this should be enough Perl related qualities (if not too many
;-) for becoming a member of the Debian Perl Team.
Regards, Axel
--
# Meh, Perl 5.6 was more fun because $$ wasn't readonly. Used $$=42 before. :)
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