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Stevan Little
Senior Perl Programmer, Infinity Interactive

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Stevan Little is the Senior Programmer for a guerilla band of consultants based out of New York City and avid CPAN contributer. He enjoys pillaging good ideas from other languages and implementing them in Perl.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Moose: A Postmodern Object System for Perl 5
Perl
 Location: Portland 256
Stevan Little (Infinity Interactive)
Moose is a new postmodern object system for Perl 5 that is gaining traction within the community, it is based on Perl 6 and borrows from such diverse sources as CLOS (LISP), Smalltalk, Ruby, BETA, O'Caml, and more. This talk will provide a conceptual overview of the major parts of Moose, including roles, type constraints, metaclasses, and more. Read more.
OSCON 2008