The authors wish to thank their editor, Allison Randal, for shepherding the process and smoothing out all of the non-writing details, as well as the production and marketing and business departments at O'Reilly Media for turning this book from plain text into the lovely printed form you hold in your hands.
Thanks also to Nathan Torkington for helping to start this process.
Thanks go primarily to my co-authors, two fine programmers it is my privilege to know as colleagues and friends, as well as to all of the contributors, without whom this book would be much shorter, much less interesting, and much less fun. Thanks also go to my friends, family, and commiserators, especially the U of P crew and Aleatha, Esther, Eva, Kate, Katie, Laura, and Mel. Thanks and respect go to my work and hobby colleagues, including all of the programmers who have invented and refined these tools which allow us to work and play.
Finally, I dedicate this book to my family, Brett, Danielle, Jacob, Jack, and Brad in the hope that I am a worthy brother, brother-in-law, uncle, and cat caretaker.
To chromatic, Allison, and Nat, for inviting me to help them build this wonderful new Perl jungle gym. To Larry Wall, who invented the extraordinary playground upon which it is constructed. And to my many, many friends throughout the worldwide Perl community, whose encouragement and support has allowed me to play here for the past decade.
Above all, to my beloved Linda, whose love, beauty, and grace illuminate every day of my life.
There's no way I could have participated in this without the Perl community having patiently answered so many of my silly questions when I started learning Perl years ago. They didn't just teach me Perl, they taught me how to be a programmer. Many thanks to chromatic and Allison for shrink-wrapping my monkey. I'll never forgive you. Mostly, though, I want to thank Sean and Lil, two people without whom the world would be a sadder place for me.
The authors extend tremendous thanks to the technical reviewers who found many errors, suggested many rephrasings, and argued over important formatting details to make this book clear, accurate, and interesting. They are Ann Barcomb, Daniel Bosold, Brad Bowman, Philippe "BooK" Bruhat, the #cgiapp IRC channel, Chris Dolan, Michael Graham, Garick Hamlin, Joshua ben Jore, Yves Orton, Ricardo Signes, and David Wheeler.
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