Chromatic (programmer)

{{short description|American computer programmer}}

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Chromatic is a writer and free software programmer best known for his work in the Perl programming language. He lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. He wrote Extreme Programming Pocket Guide and the lead author of Perl Hacks , co-wrote Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook, and is an uncredited contributor[http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/books/ Books by chromatic] to The Art of Agile Development.{{cite book |last1=Shore |first1=James |last2=Warden |first2=Shane |title=The Art of Agile Development |publisher=O'Reilly Media |location=Sebastopol, California |date=October 2007 |isbn=978-0-596-55379-1}} He has a music degree.{{cite AV media |people=Shane Warden and Jim Shore |title=On the Art of Agile Development |others=OSCON 2008 |location=Portland, Oregon |publisher=O'Reilly Media |medium=YouTube video |date=July 2008 |time=3:15 |quote=I have a degree in music. The day I graduated I said, 'I like to eat and I don't want to be living in a van the rest of my life so I am going to go find something else to do.' |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfmLsQq6OUU#t=3m15s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/bfmLsQq6OUU |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}} Also, he has contributed to CPAN, Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot.

In 2009, he founded Modern Perl Books, in part to revitalize the world of Perl and to publish materials that other publishers had neglected.[http://onyxneon.com/ Onyx Neon Press]

In 2010, he released the book Modern Perl in print and in electronic form, with the latter redistributable freely (though with a suggested donation). An updated edition was released in 2012, with the entire text online.[http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl/ Modern Perl: The Book]