[Oc-pm] YAPC::NA 2015

[Ramana V Mokkapati]

Sharing a recap of the same topic from June meeting of OCPM.

Key takeaways from my own perspective:

1) Perl 6 and Perl 5 are sister languages
2) Perl 5

   - Actively supported (5.22 being latest)
   - Continues to evolve with "backward compatibility" in mind.
   - RapidApp (http://www.rapidapp.info/), Moose, Dancer2 are impressive
   frameworks that can be production worthy right NOW

3) Perl 6

   - New kid on the block and it embraces procedural, OO and Functional
   styles,
   - Powerful tools for parsing - e.g. It has the ability to parse many
   existing languages in one pass.
   - Release 6.0.0 is slated for xmas 2015.

5) Perl 6 CAN run existing Perl 5 code - Inline::Perl5
<https://github.com/niner/Inline-Perl5/> is somewhat similar to
Inline::C(PP) we use in Perl5


Slides reviewed:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W8E2N-wV6BnjSo6mvaNXUH3Ird-N1FK42afYox64KZk/edit?usp=sharing
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