From waltman at pobox.com Tue Apr 5 17:55:22 2016 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 20:55:22 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] FWD: [plug-announce] Wed, Apr 6, 2016: PLUG Central - "What's New in Perl 5?" by Walt Mankowski (7pm at USP) Message-ID: <20160406005522.GA28551@mawode.com> Sorry for the short notice, but PLUG needed a speaker for tomorrow night at the last minute, so I volunteered to talk about Perl. This is basically the same talk I gave at FOSSCON last summer, but since I had a tiny audience that day (I was up against something devops-y) I'm guessing none of you were there. The talk itself is an overview of fun new features that have been added to Perl in the last 10 years or so. And there have been a LOT of new features. Unless you're rjbs (from whom I borrowed most of the material) or mjd, there's probably something in here you either don't know or have forgotten about. I hope some of you can make it. If not, hopefully I'll get to repeat it somewhere else. Walt ----- Forwarded message from "Paul L. Snyder" ----- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 12:56:05 -0400 From: "Paul L. Snyder" To: plug-announce at lists.phillylinux.org Subject: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Wed, Apr 6, 2016: PLUG Central - "What's New in Perl 5?" by Walt Mankowski (7pm at USP) PLUG Central will be meeting on Wednesday, April 6, at USP in Philadelpha, beginning at 7pm. Directions to the meeting location at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia can be found at the end of this email. This month, PLUG Central will feature a talk by Walt Mankowski on the latest developments in the Perl 5 programming language. What's New in Perl 5? Talk Description: Perl 6 was finally released in February after more than 15 years of development. But Perl 5 also remains in active development. It's been on a yearly release schedule for the past 5 years, and the new versions are full of new great new features like defined-or, say, state variables, versioned modules, Y2038 compliance, lexical subroutines, subroutine signatures, Unicode 7.0 support, and tons of new regular expression features. If you haven't used Perl since the (first) dotcom bust, come see what you've been missing! The meeting will be held at our usual location: University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP) Griffith Hall (Room "C" or "A", look for the signs) 600 South 43rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-4495 USP is located in University City. Driving directions are available at http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/usp.html, or http://www.usip.edu/directions, both of which have an aerial view of the campus buildings. USP is also easily accessible by public transportation. There will be an open Question & Answer session at 7PM, prior to the main presentation at 8PM. This is an open meeting; all are welcome and encouraged to attend. Usually, a number of members get together after the meeting at a nearby restaurant for food and perhaps a beer or two. Come join the camaraderie! _______________________________________________ plug-announce mailing list plug-announce at lists.phillylinux.org http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 173 bytes Desc: not available URL: