Dan Sugalski was the initial designer and chief architect for the
Parrot process virtual machine that was initially created to run
Perl 6. In 2005 Dan handed over Parrot lead duties to
Chip Salzenberg and shortly thereafter left the Parrot project.
Dan was a Perl 5 core developer for years and his duties included being responsible for the
VMS port of
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. He has written more than a dozen
Perl modules, does Perl training and has been a contributor to
The Perl Journal and
The Perl Review, as well as the
O'Reilly Network.
After leaving the Parrot project, Sugalski wrote what he called a post-mortem, giving his final thoughts.
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