Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Perl's not dead, .. it got better!
Search
Stevan Little
January 31, 2016
Programming
1
730
Perl's not dead, .. it got better!
Talk given at FOSDEM 2016
Stevan Little
January 31, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Stevan Little
See All by Stevan Little
Perl's Syntactic Legacy
stevan_little
0
1.1k
Installation & Configuration of Modern Perl
stevan_little
2
680
Moe Status Update
stevan_little
1
1.3k
Perl - The Detroit of Scripting Languages
stevan_little
14
13k
Perl is not Dead, it is a Dead End
stevan_little
38
45k
Perl 5 MOP
stevan_little
9
2k
REST from the trenches
stevan_little
6
1.5k
DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop - Keynote
stevan_little
4
840
YAPC::NA 2010 - Tuesday Keynote
stevan_little
2
230
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
技術的負債の正体を知って向き合う
irof
0
270
What Spring Developers Should Know About Jakarta EE
ivargrimstad
0
520
Introduce Hono CLI
yusukebe
6
3.1k
Developer Joy - The New Paradigm
hollycummins
1
370
What's new in Spring Modulith?
olivergierke
1
170
Amazon Verified Permissions実践入門 〜Cedar活用とAppSync導入事例/Practical Introduction to Amazon Verified Permissions
fossamagna
2
100
Vueのバリデーション、結局どれを選べばいい? ― 自作バリデーションの限界と、脱却までの道のり ― / Which Vue Validation Library Should We Really Use? The Limits of Self-Made Validation and How I Finally Moved On
neginasu
2
1.6k
AI 駆動開発におけるコミュニティと AWS CDK の価値
konokenj
5
270
TransformerからMCPまで(現代AIを理解するための羅針盤)
mickey_kubo
7
5.5k
AI Agent 時代的開發者生存指南
eddie
4
2.2k
When Dependencies Fail: Building Antifragile Applications in a Fragile World
selcukusta
0
110
Things You Thought You Didn’t Need To Care About That Have a Big Impact On Your Job
hollycummins
0
260
Featured
See All Featured
We Have a Design System, Now What?
morganepeng
53
7.8k
Scaling GitHub
holman
463
140k
実際に使うSQLの書き方 徹底解説 / pgcon21j-tutorial
soudai
PRO
190
55k
Fight the Zombie Pattern Library - RWD Summit 2016
marcelosomers
234
17k
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
57
5.9k
Agile that works and the tools we love
rasmusluckow
331
21k
Improving Core Web Vitals using Speculation Rules API
sergeychernyshev
21
1.2k
Reflections from 52 weeks, 52 projects
jeffersonlam
354
21k
The Cost Of JavaScript in 2023
addyosmani
55
9.1k
Imperfection Machines: The Place of Print at Facebook
scottboms
269
13k
No one is an island. Learnings from fostering a developers community.
thoeni
21
3.5k
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
26
3.1k
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