Joseph N. Hall (born January 8, 1966) is an American author, software developer and programming consultant. Hall is known in the Perl programming community as the author of the book Effective Perl Programming with Randal L. Schwartz, and as a contributor of software to the CPAN.

In the mid-1970s, Hall received US media coverage as a child prodigy and as a survivor of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.[1]

Bibliography edit

  • Effective Perl Programming, ISBN 0-201-41975-0
  • Effective Perl Programming, irregularly-appearing column in ;login: (the magazine of USENIX/SAGE)

Interviews edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Prodigy from Plumtree", Allen Rankin, Reader's Digest, August 1976