5: Stevan Little, author of Moose and Moe

From art school to 萌え.

Stevan Little wrote Moose, the object system for Perl 5, and he is now writing Moe, a prototype of an Ultra Modern Perl 5, but how did he get there from Art school? (24:32 min)

## Show notes * Stevan Little on [Github](https://github.com/stevan). He works at [Infinity Interactive](http://www.iinteractive.com/). * He is the author of [Moose](http://moose.perl.org/), the postmodern object system of Perl 5. * [Moe](https://github.com/MoeOrganization/moe), an -OFun prototype of an Ultra Modern Perl 5. (Written in Scala.) * Moe contributor [Prakash Kailasa](https://github.com/prakashk) known as "sahadev" on IRC was mentioned. He is using the [99 Scala Problems](http://aperiodic.net/phil/scala/s-99/) for example driven development of Moe. * [Perl 6](http://www.perl6.org/) * [Audrey Tang](https://metacpan.org/author/AUDREYT) and the mostly defunct Pugs project (was pugscode.org). * [Class::MOP](https://metacpan.org/pod/Class::MOP) the Meta Object Protocol Moose sits on top of. * [Gaal Yahas](https://github.com/gaal) and [Yuval Kogman (nothingmuch)](http://blog.woobling.org/), who came up with the name Moose. * [Dave Rolsky (autarch)](http://blog.urth.org/) who rewrote the manual of Moose. (See the [interview with Dave Rolsky](/dave-rolsky)) Other names mentioned: [Matt Trout](http://www.trout.me.uk/), [Marcus Ramberg](http://marcus.nordaaker.com/), [Chris Prather (perigrin)](http://chris.prather.org/), [Jesse Luehrs (doy)](http://tozt.net/), [Karen Etheridge (ether)](https://metacpan.org/author/ETHER)

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