September 2019 Archives

Fastmail and Perl: an interview with Ricardo Signes

Ricardo (Rik) Signes is a member of the Perl community who has helped the programming language move forward as far as features, stability, and popularity. Previously, he was Perl’s Pumpking (manager of the core Perl 5 language), during which time he oversaw 5 major releases. Currently, he is a board member at the Perl Foundation and CTO at Fastmail, leading a development team working in Perl every day.

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About Neil Bowers

user-pic Perl hacker since 1992.