Thomas S. Christiansen (born February 13, 1963), nicknamed "tchrist" or occasionally "thoth", is a well-known Unix developer and user especially known for his many contributions to the Perl programming language.
Christiansen worked for several years at TSR Hobbies before attending the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he earned B.A.'s in Spanish and Computer Science, and an M.S. in Computer Science. He worked for five years at Convex Comput...
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Thomas S. Christiansen (born February 13, 1963), nicknamed "tchrist" or occasionally "thoth", is a well-known Unix developer and user especially known for his many contributions to the Perl programming language.
Christiansen worked for several years at TSR Hobbies before attending the University of Wisconsin - Madison where he earned B.A.'s in Spanish and Computer Science, and an M.S. in Computer Science. He worked for five years at Convex Computer. In 1993, he established the Tom Christiansen Perl Consultancy, located in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
Christiansen was one of the early contributors to Perl after its public release in 1987. He was the author of much of the core Perl documentation, including the manual pages perlfaq and perltoot. In 1996, Christiansen wrote "Csh Programming Considered Harmful" about the limitations inherent in C Shell Programming. Books he co-authored include the second (1996) and third (2000) editions of Programming Perl, the second (1997) edition of Learning...
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