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Gerontophilia Considered Harmful

Gerontophilia Considered Harmful

Lightning Talk from YAPC::NA::2016, as delivered by Mett Smeggin Troot

John SJ Anderson

June 22, 2016
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  1. mst? For some reason, I am constantly being confused for

    another Perl person with same initials.
  2. using old Perl when you don't need to it is

    using old perl when you don't have a reason to!
  3. maintaining backwards compaBbility i'm talking about fetishistically maintaining backward compatibility

    with earlier versions of the language when you're using a more modern version
  4. dev makes feature. feature gets used. dev is happy. dev

    make more new feature. language gets be+er! everybody wins. ❤ {read slide}
  5. dev makes feature. feature gets ignored. dev is sad. dev

    leaves. language stagnates & dies. nobody wins. {read slide}
  6. rjbs++ shout-out to rik for requiring 5.14 in new version

    of Dzil this is a small but significant step in the right direction
  7. mst++ and finally, a shout out to mst, who wasn't

    able to be here this year. it didn't feel like YAPC without you, so i decided maybe you could _sort_ of be here after all...