Audrey Tang
Audrey Tang (Traditional chinese: 唐鳳[1]; born April 18, 1981 as 唐宗漢[2], formerly known as Autrijus) is a Taiwanese free software programmer, best known for initiating and leading the Pugs project, a joint effort from Haskell and Perl communities to implement the Perl 6 language.
She is also known for internationalization and localization contributions to several Free Software programs, including SVK, Kwiki, Request Tracker and Slash, as well as heading Traditional Chinese translation efforts for various Open Source-related books.
On the CPAN, Tang initiated over 100 Perl projects, including the popular Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR), a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for Perl 5. She is also responsible for setting up smoke test and digital signature systems for CPAN.
Tang is a high school dropout and a vocal proponent for autodidactism and individualist anarchism.
Notes
- ^ 唐鳳 and 唐宗漢 are transliterated as Táng Fèng and Táng Zōnghàn respectively.
- The Chinese characters in Tang's name are 唐 (Unicode U+5510, Tang dynasty [3]), which is among others transliterated as Tang, a Chinese surname and 鳳 (Unicode U+9cf3, Phoenix [4]).
External links
- Audrey's Pugs Journal and Personal Blog.
- An interview on Pugs.
- Another interview, on Perl Internationalization and Haskell.
- An interview with Autrijus by Debby (in Mandarin)
- Runtime typecasting from Audrey's blog
- Podcast interview with Audrey on Perlcast