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randal l schwartz wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 career toggle career subsection 1 1 intel case 2 bibliography 3 references 4 external links toggle the table of contents randal l schwartz 7 languages العربية مصرى deutsch español 한국어 polski русский edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia american programmer and technology writer randal l schwartz born 1961 11 22 november 22 1961 age 64 other name merlyn internet handle occupations programmer author instructor employer s stonehenge consulting services inc known for schwartzian transform website www stonehenge com merlyn randal l schwartz born november 22 1961 also known as merlyn is an american author system administrator and programming consultant he has written several books on the perl programming language and plays a promotional role within the perl community he was a co host of floss weekly in 1995 while working as a consultant for intel he cracked a number of passwords on the company s systems as part of a security review he was convicted of hacking sentenced to five years probation and fined the conviction was expunged in 2007 career edit schwartz is the co author of several widely used books about perl a programming language and has written regular columns about perl for several computer magazines including unix review web techniques and the perl journal he popularized the just another perl hacker signature programs he is a founding board member of the perl mongers the worldwide perl grassroots advocacy organization he was a member of the squeak oversight board 1 which oversees the squeak programming language he has owned and operated stonehenge consulting services inc since 1985 after joining as co host of floss weekly a free software open source floss themed podcast in 2007 he assumed the role of host in 2010 until may 2020 he has done voice work for starshipsofa a science fiction podcast schwartz s name is also associated with the schwartzian transform an algorithm to efficiently sort a list according to a computation without repeating the computation many times for each element of the list he also coined the name spaceship operator for use in his teaching because it reminded him of the spaceship in an hp basic star trek game 2 schwartz is a member of the f oss community and has been named a perl expert and interviewed by numerous outlets to discuss his views on perl ruby smalltalk and other topics including dr dobb s 3 paul dot com security tv 4 the command line 5 perlcast 6 floss weekly 7 onlamp com 8 and infoq 9 schwartz was also a speaker at the 2011 oscon conference 10 and a keynote speaker at the 2010 texas linuxfest conference 11 his various books have been met with positive reviews 12 13 schwartz giving a talk at fisl 16 intel case edit in july 1995 schwartz was prosecuted in the case of state of oregon vs randal schwartz which dealt with compromised computer security during his time as a system administrator for intel in the process of performing penetration testing he cracked a number of passwords on intel s systems 14 15 schwartz was originally convicted on three felony counts with one reduced to a misdemeanor but on february 1 2007 his arrest and conviction records were sealed through an official expungement and he is legally no longer a felon 16 17 bibliography edit programming perl isbn 0 937175 64 1 isbn 1 56592 149 6 2ed learning perl isbn 1 56592 042 2 isbn 1 56592 284 0 2ed isbn 0 596 00132 0 3ed isbn 0 596 10105 8 4ed isbn 0 596 52010 7 5ed isbn 1 4493 0358 7 6ed 18 2011 isbn 1 4919 5432 9 7ed 19 2016 intermediate perl isbn 0 596 10206 2 2006 isbn 1 4493 9309 8 2ed 2012 learning perl on win32 systems isbn 1 56592 324 3 learning perl objects references modules 20 2003 isbn 0 596 00478 8 effective perl programming isbn 0 201 41975 0 preface for object oriented perl isbn 1 884777 79 1 collected columns in randal schwartz s perls of wisdom isbn 1 59059 323 5 references edit squeak oversight board election 2011 wiki squeak org april 10 2011 retrieved august 22 2011 spaceship history was re dart misc dep meeting notes riley mike june 7 2007 randal schwartz on perl 6 and ruby dr dobb s journal drdobbs com retrieved august 22 2011 randal schwartz interview pauldotcom security weekly tv on blip tv archived from the original on november 7 2012 retrieved august 22 2011 tclp 2009 10 21 interview randal schwartz the command line thecommandline net october 21 2009 retrieved august 22 2011 perlcast interview 13 interview with randal schwartz rblasch org retrieved august 22 2011 the twit netcast network with leo laporte twit tv retrieved august 22 2011 cite web cs1 maint deprecated archival service link an interview with randal schwartz and tom phoenix authors of learning perl 3rd edition o reilly media oreillynet com retrieved august 22 2011 ruby s roots smalltalk comeback and randal schwartz on smalltalk infoq retrieved august 22 2011 randal l schwartz oscon 2011 o reilly conferences july 25 29 2011 portland or oscon com july 25 2011 retrieved august 22 2011 cite web cs1 maint deprecated archival service link texas linuxfest 2010 april 12 2010 retrieved august 22 2011 brown martin november 3 2005 book review randal schwartz s perls of wisdom by randal l schwartz free software magazine 8 turner brian june 22 2006 book review learning perl by randal l schwartz tom phoenix and brian d foy free software magazine lewis peter h november 27 1995 technology on the net an intel computer security expert runs afoul of the law so much for the hacker ethic new york times pacenka steve april 15 1996 report of detective p lazenby archive archived 17 august 2017 at the wayback machine case main archived 31 august 2018 at the wayback machine leyden john march 5 2007 intel hacker clears his name 12 year fight ends in victory for white hat password cracker the register uk pacenka steve april 15 1996 state of oregon vs randal schwartz case summary archive lightlink com case main archived 31 august 2018 at the wayback machine learning perl sixth edition o reilly media oreilly com june 23 2011 isbn 9781449303587 retrieved august 22 2011 learning perl seventh edition o reilly media oreilly com retrieved october 27 2016 learning perl objects references and modules o reilly media oreilly com june 9 2003 isbn 9780596004781 retrieved august 22 2011 external links edit official website author at o reilly media randal schwartz photographs at flickr v t e perl things cpan perl foundation archives module perl vm yapc frameworks bioperl catalyst dancer dbi dbix class lwp mojolicious moose plack psgi template toolkit software amavis argus ssp awstats backuppc bricolage bugzilla dada mail ikiwiki makepp movable type munin otrs request tracker spamassassin twiki foswiki w3perl webmin related parrot raku rakudo rules moarvm books advanced perl programming effective perl programming higher order perl perl cookbook programming perl learning perl intermediate perl perl best practices perl design patterns people larry wall randal l schwartz damian conway allison randal audrey tang sean m burke chromatic brian d foy jesse vincent outline category v t e twit tv podcasts this week in tech hands on apple hands on tech hands on windows home theater geeks host read ads ios today intelligent machines macbreak weekly security now tech news weekly this week in space untitled linux show windows weekly hosts leo laporte mikah sargent jonathan bennett richard campbell steve gibson andy ihnatko jeff jarvis tariq malik paris martineau rosemary orchard rod pyle jason snell paul thurrott scott wilkinson authority control databases international isni viaf gnd worldcat national united states france bnf data japan czech republic russia portugal netherlands norway latvia korea poland israel academics cinii association for computing machinery dblp people trove ddb other idref open library yale lux retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title randal_l _schwartz oldid 1369059638 categories 1961 births living people american computer programmers american technology writers writers from portland oregon perl writers o reilly writers tektronix people twit tv people hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata use mdy dates from october 2012 pages 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