Clinton Pierce

Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours, Third EditionAbout the Author

Clinton Pierce is a software engineer, freelance programmer, and instructor. He has been answering questions about Perl on USENET for many years and has been writing courseware and teaching Perl to his co-workers and anyone else who will listen for about as long. He is a software engineer for a payroll company, who, when not designing middleware software to integrate legacy systems to the Web, navigating the intricacies of payroll taxes, teaching UNIX and Perl, writing books and articles, or writing programs at home Just For The Fun Of It, harbors secret dreams of being abducted by wood nymphs and living in the deep forest without technology. You can visit his Web site at http://www.geeksalad.org for updates and corrections, or just to say hello.

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Clinton Pierce

Clinton Pierce is a software engineer, freelance programmer and programming instructor. He is active in the Perl and Unix communities, contributing to the Perl Power Tools project, and answering several hundred questions in Usenet news groups about Perl. He has written courseware for several classes, including Unix systems administration, Perl programming, and Unix shell programming. Over the past six years he has trained hundreds of consultants and Ford employees in Perl programming and Unix systems programming and administration.