Famous Perl programmers
subtitle: That you probably didn’t know were (Perl programmers)
My definition of famous: They have a Wikipedia entry 🙂
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Early pioneer of Extreme Programming and inventor of the Wiki (both the name and the implementation, which was and still is in Perl)
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Co-inventor of the first PC spreadsheet program (VisiCalc) and creator of wikiCalc, an online spreadsheet written in Perl (though I believe Bricklin has written a Javascript version as well).
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Inventor of POPFile, a pioneering bayesian spam filtering program written in Perl
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Creator in chief of jQuery, Javascript programmer and JERESIG on CPAN
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Was the driving force behind Flickr, PHP Programmer and IAMCAL on CPAN.
Its amazing what one can find out by listening to tech podcasts! (more on this in a future blog post).
Lets wrap up with two more famous programmers you probably have heard of but perhaps didn’t know that they did (and possible occasionally still do!) use Perl:
Been meaning to namedrop Cal Henderson because it provides me with the opportunity to point you to his brilliant tongue in cheek DjangoCon 2008 Keynote “Why I Hate Django” 🙂
Embedded YouTube video follows (also here is the link)
Hats off to the Pythonista’s for showing excellent sense of humour with the keynotes wonderful mickey taking!
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transfixed but not dead! 
http://www.google.com
Hi Stepahie,
Not sure what your trying to get across but I predominately use DuckDuckGo.com for most of my technical web searching 🙂
More on that another day.
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