Perl is not dead,... it got better!
- Track: Perl devroom
- Room: H.2214
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 15:00
- End: 15:20
A long time ago (2013), in a galaxy far, far away (Orlando Perl Workshop) I gave a talk in which I declared Perl was not dead, but a dead end. The thesis of the talk being that the Perl 5 core was not a platform capable of change and the Perl 6 future was still to uncertain, so ... the only reasonable thing was to just rewrite it all in Scala!
In the intervening years ... my rewrite stalled, I made peace with the Perl core, others attempted forks and rewrites (to varying degrees of success), and the Perl 6 Christmas finally came! In this talk we will reexamine the state of Perl in 2015 and discuss it's glorious future!
Speakers
| Stevan Little |