User:Patrick Michaud
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Patrick R. Michaud, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (http://www.tamucc.edu), where he has worked since 1990. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (http://www.louisiana.edu)).
On the Internet he is best known for his articles Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches ( http://www.pmichaud.com/toast ) and Fun With Grapes ( http://www.pmichaud.com/grape ), which he wrote in the summer of 1994 to evaluate the web as a communications medium and which have been widely cited both on the web and in the popular press.
He has authored PmWiki, a WikiWikiWeb system written in PHP and specifically designed to support web development.
On August 4th, 2004, he was named Perl 6 compiler pumpking by Dan Sugalski, after volunteering for the position. He has since been in charge of developing the Perl 6 compiler, an important part of a complete rewrite of the Perl language.
External Links
- http://www.pmichaud.com/ - Pm's personal web site
- http://www.perldiscuss.com/article.php?id=24894&group=perl.perl6.internals - Announcement of his Perl 6 compiler pumpkingship