Damian Conway

Who is Damian Conway?

Damian Conway 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 BSc and PhD 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 programming training courses. He has contributed the following modules to CPAN:

Parse::RecDescent

Class::Contract

Lingua::EN::Inflect

Class::Std

Class::Multimethods

Text::Autoformat

Switch

NEXT

Filter::Simple

Smart::Comments

Quantum::Superpositions

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.