That is one *thorough* background, Axel. :) On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 19:08 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > 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 -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 4096R/42A00942 2009-12-16 Fingerprint: 5814 2CCE 2383 2991 83FF C899 07E2 BFA8 42A0 0942 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
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