Mark Jason Dominus

Mark Jason Dominus (born April 2, 1969) was the managing editor of perl.com (a website about the Perl programming language) and was a columnist for The Perl Journal for several years. Dominus' other Perl-related articles have appeared in magazines such as Wired and IEEE Software. He is the author of Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs which was published in 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann.

Dominus is the author of several Perl modules, including Text::Template, Memoize, and Tie::File. His work on Rx, a Perl regular expression debugger, won the 2000 Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility.

He has also been involved in Kibology, a parody religion Usenet group.

Dominus was born in New York City and lives on the east coast. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.

Publications
His book Higher Order Perl (2005) was described as "absolutely great" by Linux Insight. Unix Review said it "should have a place on the bookshelf of every Perl programmer".