Randal L. Schwartz

Randal L. Schwartz (born November 22, 1961) is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant. Schwartz is the co-author of several widely used books about Perl, a programming language for computers, and has written regular columns about Perl for several computer magazines. He popularized the Just another Perl hacker signature programs. He is a founding board member of the Perl Mongers, the worldwide Perl grassroots advocacy organization.

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November 22 - 1961 - American - Perl - Just another Perl hacker - Signature

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Schwartz's name is also associated with the Schwartzian transform, a trick to efficiently sort a list according to a computation, without repeating the computation many times for each element of the list.

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Since 1985, Schwartz has owned and operated Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

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