Randal L. Schwartz

<a href="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/" title="Randal L. Schwartz">Randal L. Schwartz</a> (a.k.a. <a href="mailto:merlyn@stonehenge.com" title="Send email to merlyn@stonehenge.com">merlyn</a>) is the &ldquo;chief Perl guru at <a href="http://www.stonehenge.com/" title="Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.">Stonehenge Consulting</a>.&rdquo; He has a <a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/depts/perl.html" title="Linux Magazine | DEPARTMENTS | PERL OF WISDOM">regular column</a> over at <a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/" title="Linux Magazine: Open Source. Open Standards.">Linux Magazine</a>. He has also helped write a number of books on the Perl programming language, including:

• Learning Perl, 3rd Edition
• Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules
• Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
• Effective Perl Programming: Writing Better Programs With Perl
• Object Oriented Perl