PERSON
Andreas König
Andreas König
- Andreas König (CPAN ID:
ANDK) is a German Perl pioneer, co-founder of CPAN, creator of PAUSE (the Perl Authors Upload Server), and author of the coreCPAN.pmshell module. Connection to My Work
- Along with Jarkko Hietaniemi, Andreas bootstrapped the global CPAN mirror network in 1995 using Lee McLoughlin's
mirrortool (ftp.pl->chat2.pl). See The 35-Year Story of chat.pl and chat2.pl. - When setting up PAUSE author IDs for CPAN, my six-character handle
MERLYNwas the direct impetus for expanding the CPAN author ID length limit from five characters to six.
- Along with Jarkko Hietaniemi, Andreas bootstrapped the global CPAN mirror network in 1995 using Lee McLoughlin's
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