Perl's not dead, .. it got better!

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… 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.

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The Community

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perl5-porters

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CGI Fucking ^

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Concurrency/Parallelism

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OOP

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CPAN

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WHO IN THEIR RIGHT FSCKING MIND WOULD WANT TO MAINTAIN THE PERL 5 CORE ?!!?

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2016

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"Young people are just smarter” – Mark Zuckerberg

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1987

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1987

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1987

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1987

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Mature Community

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Javascript

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“I’ve aged out of IRC” – me

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use.perl usenet perlmonks ??? ??? irc ??? mailing lists

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use.perl ??? perlmonks ??? ??? irc p5p mailing lists

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??? slack perlmonks blogs.perl stack overﬂow irc p5p mailing lists

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github slack perlmonks blogs.perl stack overﬂow irc p5p mailing lists TIMTOWTDI

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Perl 5 Porters

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CoC

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weekly summary p5p

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Signatures

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5.20 subroutine signatures

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5.18 computed labels

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✓ … ✓ 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

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CGI

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NPM

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THE CORE

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p5-mop

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A S Y N C

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"Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years" – LL Cool J (clearly speaking about Perl 6)

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Awesome!

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Awesome!

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Awesome!

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Awesome!

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Awesome! Perl 6 is

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Perl was always designed to be an evolving language. – Larry Wall

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I Perl

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Retro Retro Retro Retro Retro Perl Perl Perl Perl Perlis is is is is is is is

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