Simon Cozens

Simon Cozens (born 1978) is a British Perl programmer, author, blogger and missionary. He is a graduate of Pembroke College, Oxford (where he studied Japanese) and All Nations Christian College (where he studied theology and missiology). He is the author of over 100 modules on CPAN, and several books on Perl programming. For several years, he was the administrator of [http://www.perl.com Perl.com] , a Perl webzine run by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Simon's Perl modules are many and various, but include much of the Email::* hierarchy, several modules related to Japanese and Go, the spam filter SpamMonkey, and the Maypole web application framework.

In 2003, Simon went on a short-term mission with WEC International to Shiga Prefecture, during which he became convinced of his calling to long-term mission. He enrolled at All Nations Christian College for two years, then returned to Japan in April 2007. He is currently stationed in Nagahama.

Bibliography

*"Beginning Perl"
*"Extending and Embedding Perl"
*"Advanced Perl Programming", 2nd ed.

External links

* [http://simon-cozens.org/ Simon Cozens' personal website]
* [http://blog.simon-cozens.org/ Simon Cozens' weblog]
* [http://search.cpan.org/~simon/ Simon Cozens' CPAN modules]