Perl's not dead, .. it got better!

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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.
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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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12. 2016

13. 40

14. 30

15. "Young people are just smarter” – Mark Zuckerberg

16. 1987

17. 1987

18. 1987

19. 1987

20. Mature Community

21. Javascript

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23. “I’ve aged out of IRC” – me

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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

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36. Signatures

37. 5.20 subroutine signatures

38. 5.18 computed labels

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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

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43. NPM

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45. THE CORE

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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)
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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