[Purdue-pm] Composing a Talk

Joe Kline gizmo at purdue.edu
Mon Nov 26 12:53:05 PST 2012


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On 11/26/2012 03:38 PM, Mark Senn wrote:
>   > So, help me outline this. What ARE the latest developments in Perl?
>   > Clearly, Perl 6 as a) a new language and b) a skunk works for new
>   > ideas for Perl 5. Artful ways of saying "Perl is Alive" without
>   > saying "Perl isn't Dead". Other thoughts?
> 
> A tiny start:
> 
> Perl 5
>     http://www.perl.org
>     Perl 5.16.2
>     Moose
>     parallel perl, including Grid::Machine
>     threads
>     Raspberry Pi Perl
>     CPAN
>         over 25,000 "distributions of software written in Perl"


I would second this stuff as well.

Maybe bring up the Modern Perl movement. Especially with Moose Perl has
a very modern OO system.

With tools like perlbrew and cpanm you can do your own Perl install
quite easily.

Strawberry Perl and Activestate have really got Perl on Windows working
well again.

Throw something out on Perl Monks and blogs.perl.org to see what other
folks think it cool.

I think this is rather cool:

http://blogs.perl.org/users/mauke/2012/11/cool-things-you-can-do-with-perl-514.html

Also, Perl has moved to a release tempo that is predictable, stable and
isn't burning out pumpkings anymore.

joe

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