Damian Conway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway ) is the mad scientist of Perl.

I'd also suggest giving the following modules a read:

    https://metacpan.org/pod/Quantum::Superpositions
    https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach
    https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Crap
    https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Morse

Note the author block of the Acme projects.