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"WELL VOLUNTEERED!" echoed across conference rooms and IRC channels. Matt S. Trout's battle
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cry that transformed reluctant volunteers into community leaders.
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- With profound
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- sadness, we announce Matt's passing. Since the early 2000s, Matt shaped Perl
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- through sheer force of will: IRC operator, PAUSE administrator, ShadowCat
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- co-founder, architect of DBIx::Class. His opinions came wrapped in profanity
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- and delivered at maximum volume. He suffered no fools and grew to sometimes
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- realize he should apologize. Yet this same abrasive exterior protected fierce
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- dedication to mentoring, developers he harangued into volunteering now lead the
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- community themselves. Matt's deliberately mind-bending code pushed Perl
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- forward. Every modern Perl developer touches his legacy daily.
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+ With profound sadness, we announce Matt's passing. Since the early 2000s, Matt
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+ shaped Perl through sheer force of will: IRC operator, PAUSE administrator,
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+ ShadowCat co-founder, architect of DBIx::Class. His opinions came wrapped in
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+ profanity and delivered at maximum volume. He suffered no fools and grew to
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+ sometimes realize he should apologize. Yet this same abrasive exterior
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+ protected fierce dedication to mentoring, developers he harangued into
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+ volunteering now lead the community themselves. Matt's deliberately
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+ mind-bending code pushed Perl forward. Every modern Perl developer touches his
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+ legacy daily.
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Well volunteered, Matt. Rest in peace.
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