Acknowledgments
I've already blamed Nat Torkington for commissioning this book; I should thank him as well. As much as writing a book can be fun, this one has been. It has certainly been helped by my editors, beginning with Nat and Tatiana Apandi, and ending with the hugely talented Allison Randal, who has almost single-handedly corrected code, collated comments, and converted my rambling thoughts into something publishable. The production team at O'Reilly deserves a special mention, if only because of the torture I put them through in having a chapter on Unicode.
Allison also rounded up a great crew of highly knowledgeable reviewers: my thanks to Tony Bowden, Philippe Bruhat, Sean Burke, Piers Cawley, Nicholas Clark, James Duncan, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Thomas Klausner, Tom McTighe, Curtis Poe, chromatic, and Andy Wardley.
And finally, there are a few people I'd like to thank personally: thanks to Heather Lang, Graeme Everist, and Juliet Humphrey for putting up with me last year, and to Jill Ford and the rest of her group at All Nations Christian College who have to put up with me now. Tony Bowden taught me more about good Perl programming than either of us would probably admit, and Simon Ponsonby taught me more about everything else than he realises. Thanks to Al and Jamie for being there, and to Malcolm and Caroline Macdonald and Noriko and Akio Kawamura for launching me on the current exciting stage of my life.
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