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Mark Jason Dominus is a computer scientist, mathematician, and author. He is best known as the author of Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs which was published in 2005 by Morgan Kaufmann.

He was the managing editor of perl.com (a website about the Perl programming language) from 1999 to 2001 and was a columnist for The Perl Journal for several years. Other Perl-related articles by Dominus have appeared in magazines such as Wired and IEEE Software. Dominus is the author of several Perl modules, including Text::Template, Memoize, and Tie::File. His work on Rx, a Perl regular expression debugger, won the 2001 Larry Wall Award for Practical Utility. He has been an invited speaker at OOPSLA 2008. He is the founder of Kibology, a parody religion Usenet group.