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Perl's not dead, .. it got better!
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Stevan Little
January 31, 2016
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Perl's not dead, .. it got better!
Talk given at FOSDEM 2016
Stevan Little
January 31, 2016
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Transcript
… bring out your dead (Perl) … bring out your
dead (Perl) is not Perl dead … it got better! 31 January 2016 – FOSDEM – Perl Dev Room –
[email protected]
With apologies to Guido for stealing from Python, yet again.
None
The Community
perl5-porters
CGI Fucking ^
@_
Concurrency/Parallelism
OOP
CPAN
WHO IN THEIR RIGHT FSCKING MIND WOULD WANT TO MAINTAIN
THE PERL 5 CORE ?!!?
None
2016
40
30
"Young people are just smarter” – Mark Zuckerberg
1987
1987
1987
1987
Mature Community
Javascript
None
“I’ve aged out of IRC” – me
None
??? usenet ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? mailing lists
use.perl usenet perlmonks ??? ??? irc ??? mailing lists
use.perl ??? perlmonks ??? ??? irc p5p mailing lists
??? ??? perlmonks blogs.perl ??? irc p5p mailing lists
??? ??? perlmonks blogs.perl stack overflow irc p5p mailing lists
??? slack perlmonks blogs.perl stack overflow irc p5p mailing lists
github slack perlmonks blogs.perl stack overflow irc p5p mailing lists
TIMTOWTDI
Perl 5 Porters
CoC
weekly summary p5p
None
Signatures
5.20 subroutine signatures
5.18 computed labels
None
✓ … ✓ Unicode 8.0 ✓ unicode_strings ✓ keyword API
✓ package NAME BLOCK ✓ IPv6 ✓ __SUB__ ✓ Foldcase ✓ Hash Randomization ✓ RegExp set operations ✓ lexical subroutines ✓ computed labels ✓ hash slices ✓ variable aliasing ✓ mulit-op dereference ✓ signatures ✓ postfix dereferencing
CGI
None
NPM
None
THE CORE
None
None
None
p5-mop
A S Y N C
"Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years"
– LL Cool J (clearly speaking about Perl 6)
None
None
None
Awesome!
Awesome!
Awesome!
Awesome!
Awesome! Perl 6 is
Perl was always designed to be an evolving language. –
Larry Wall
I Perl
Retro Retro Retro Retro Retro Perl Perl Perl Perl Perlis
is is is is is is is
fin