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British Perl guru Matt Trout dead at 42 (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Perl was once described as "the swiss army chainsaw of scripting languages." For a second I thought they meant Larry Wall. I associate Matt Trout more with his libraries and the Catalyst framework. Definitely a Perl guru tho. RIP, buddy.