Jesse Vincent (born June 21, 1976) is a

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and

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, best known for his work with the Perl programming language. He created the ticket-tracking system Request Tracker ("RT") and founded the company Best Practical Solutions. He created RT while working at

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the Methodi ...

in 1994. Graduating from the university in 1998, Vincent founded Best Practical in 2001. He co-authored ''RT Essentials'' in 2005. He is the founder and former project lead of K-9 Mail email app for Android (since acquired by Mozilla and rebranded as Thunderbird for Android). In 2012 he became interested in the ergonomics of keyboards, having designed and built himself several designs. In 2014 he co-founded Keyboardio. In 2021, he co-founded VaccinateCA, a community-run website for helping Americans find COVID vaccines.

Perl

From 2005 to 2008 he served as the

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for Perl 6. He was the keeper of the pumpkin for

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

versions 5.12 and 5.14. He changed the release cycle for Perl 5 from an irregular release done at the leisure of the project manager to a regular timeboxed release with development releases monthly and stable releases annually.

References

External links

RT Essentials

Personal Web site

contributions
to

CPAN The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a software repository of over 220,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 45,500 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 14,500 contributors. ''CPAN'' can de ...

1976 births Living people Perl people Wesleyan University alumni {{US-compu-bio-stub