Rosellyne Worrall

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• Commented on Remembering Matt Trout
  I’m going to assume good faith on your part. I told my truth, and you told yours. It would be hypocritical of me to delete your own little Dark Tea-Time of the Soul moment, and I’ll meet you with the...
• Posted Remembering Matt Trout to roz

  We all knew Matt Trout differently.

  To some, he was tough. Uncompromising. Intimidating, even. He was half-man, half-thermite, a brilliant intellect with a particular way of loving something so fiercely that if you didn’t match that intensity, he might burn straight through, leaving you …

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• Dean commented on Remembering Matt Trout

  I met him twice at perl conferences. My experience wasn't noteworthy but at the same time I didn't make any attempt beyond asking some follow up questions from his talk.

  I admired that he claimed to run NetBSD on both his laptop and workstation - although that webpage likely was out of date long ago.

  Nevertheless his reputation for both productivity and anti-social behaviour was well known. I know people who know him very well, and I know even more people who have been deeply offended by him.

  His legacy in code lives on in CPAN and in the systems that run that code …