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

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

  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 – [email protected]
    With apologies to Guido for
    stealing from Python, yet again.

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  3. The Community

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  4. perl5-porters

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  5. CGI
    Fucking
    ^

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  6. @_

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  7. Concurrency/Parallelism

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  8. OOP

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  9. CPAN

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

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  12. 2016

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  13. 40

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  14. 30

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  15. "Young people are just smarter”

    – Mark Zuckerberg

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  16. 1987

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  17. 1987

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  18. 1987

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  19. 1987

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  20. Mature Community

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  21. Javascript

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  23. “I’ve aged out of IRC”

    – me

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  25. ???
    usenet
    ???
    ???
    ???
    ???
    ???
    mailing
    lists

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

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

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  28. ???
    ???
    perlmonks
    blogs.perl
    ???
    irc
    p5p
    mailing
    lists

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  29. ???
    ???
    perlmonks
    blogs.perl
    stack
    overflow
    irc
    p5p
    mailing
    lists

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  30. ???
    slack
    perlmonks
    blogs.perl
    stack
    overflow
    irc
    p5p
    mailing
    lists

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

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  32. Perl 5 Porters

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  33. CoC

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  34. weekly
    summary
    p5p

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  36. Signatures

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  37. 5.20
    subroutine signatures

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  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

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  41. CGI

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  43. NPM

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  45. THE CORE

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  49. p5-mop

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  50. A S Y N C

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  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!

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  56. Awesome!

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  57. Awesome!

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  58. Awesome!

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  59. Awesome!
    Perl 6 is

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

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  61. I Perl

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  62. Retro
    Retro
    Retro
    Retro
    Retro
    Perl
    Perl
    Perl
    Perl
    Perlis
    is
    is
    is
    is
    is
    is
    is

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  63. fin

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