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

Talk given at FOSDEM 2016

Transcript

1. … bring out your dead (Perl) … bring out your dead (Perl) is not Perl dead … it got better! 31 January 2016 – FOSDEM – Perl Dev Room – stevan@cpan.org With apologies to Guido for stealing from Python, yet again.
3. The Community
4. perl5-porters
5. CGI Fucking ^
6. @_
7. Concurrency/Parallelism
8. OOP
9. CPAN
10. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT FSCKING MIND WOULD WANT TO MAINTAIN THE PERL 5 CORE
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15. "Young people are just smarter” – Mark Zuckerberg
20. Mature Community
21. Javascript
23. “I’ve aged out of IRC” – me
25. ??? usenet ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? mailing lists
26. use.perl usenet perlmonks ??? ??? irc ??? mailing lists
27. use.perl ??? perlmonks ??? ??? irc p5p mailing lists
28. ??? ??? perlmonks blogs.perl ??? irc p5p mailing lists
29. ??? ??? perlmonks blogs.perl stack overflow irc p5p mailing lists
30. ??? slack perlmonks blogs.perl stack overflow irc p5p mailing lists
31. github slack perlmonks blogs.perl stack overflow irc p5p mailing lists TIMTOWTDI
32. Perl 5 Porters
33. CoC
34. weekly summary p5p
36. Signatures
37. 5.20 subroutine signatures
38. 5.18 computed labels
40. ✓ … ✓ 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
41. CGI
43. NPM
45. THE CORE
49. p5-mop
50. A S Y N C
51. "Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years" – LL Cool J (clearly speaking about Perl 6)
55. Awesome!
56. Awesome!
57. Awesome!
58. Awesome!
59. Awesome! Perl 6 is
60. Perl was always designed to be an evolving language. – Larry Wall
61. I Perl
62. Retro Retro Retro Retro Retro Perl Perl Perl Perl Perlis is is is is is is is
63. fin