About the Author

S

AM

 T

REGAR

 has been working as a Perl programmer for four years. He is currently 

employed by About.com in the PIRT group, where he develops content management 

systems. Sam holds a bachelor of arts degree in computer science from New York 

University.

Sam started programming on an Apple IIc in BASIC when he was 10 years old. 

Over the years his love of technical manuals led him through C, C++, Lisp, TCL/Tk, 

Ada, Java, and ultimately to Perl. In Perl he found a language with flexibility and 

power to match his ambitious designs. Sam is the author of a number of popular 

Perl modules on CPAN including HTML::Template, HTML::Pager, Inline::Guile, 

and Devel::Profiler. The great enjoyment he derives from contributing to CPAN 

motivated him to write this book, his first.

Aside from programming, Sam enjoys reading, playing Go, developing black 

and white photographs, thinking about sailing, and maintaining the small private 

zoo curated by his wife that contains three cats, two mice, two rats, one snake, and 

one rabbit.

Sam lives with his wife Kristen in Croton on Hudson, New York. You can reach 

him by e mail at sam@tregar.com or by visiting his home page at http://sam.tregar.com.

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