Mark Jason Dominus

Mark Jason Dominus (born April 2, 1969) is a computer programmer. He was the managing editor of www.perl.com and was a columnist for The Perl Journal. Quotes Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/02/spamfilter.html My Life With Spam : How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With It February 9, 2000 Dominus, Mark Jason 2006-11-30 A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn everything, and that it took me a long time to realize that you couldn't learn everything. I got really angry, and I shouted "I'm not done yet!" http://blog.plover.com/book/Powells.html Boring answers to Powell's questions Dominus, Mark Jason October 19, 2006 2006-11-30 You can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! http://www.perl.org/yapc/2002/movies/themovie/ YAPC 2002 - The Movie June 28, 2002 Dominus, Mark Jason 2007-02-06 In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion. http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/mjd-hop-20050407.html Interview with Mark Jason Dominus April 7, 2005 January 17, 2011 The Perl Review http://www.webcitation.org/5vo5J8kzO January 17, 2011 Some questions are logically nonsensical because the querent thinks they know more than they do. A lot of these have the form ‘How do I use X to accomplish Y?’ There's nothing wrong with this, except that sometimes X is a chocolate-covered banana and Y is the integration of European currency systems. https://jdebp.uk/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html Put down the chocolate-covered banana and step away from the European currency systems. External links Category:Technology writers from the United States Category:Columnists from the United States Category:Programmers from the United States Category:1969 births Category:Living people