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<meta charset="utf-8"/>
-<title>Perl is Dead</title>
+<title>Perl Is Dead</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
<meta name="description" content="&quot;Perl is dead&quot; is an urban legend and conspiracy theory alleging that famous programming language Perl, created by Larry Wall, died on 19 July 2000 and was secretly replaced by a whitespace-sensitive look-alike."/>
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<body>
-<h1 id="title">Perl is Dead<span style="color: #ccc;">?</span></h1>
+<div id="header">
+<h1 id="title">&nbsp;Perl Is Dead<span style="color: #ccc;">?</span></h1>
+</div>
+
+<table>
+
+<tr id="row1">
+<td>
<p class="intro">
<b>"Perl is dead"</b> is an urban legend and conspiracy theory alleging
that famous programming language Perl, created by Larry Wall, died
@@ -20,17 +27,11 @@ speeches and Perl book covers. Clue-hunting proved infectious, and
within a few weeks had become an international phenomenon.
<cite>(paraphrased from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead">Wikipedia</a>&hellip;)</cite>
-<div style="float: right; border: 1px dashed #ccc; padding: 0 1em; margin: 1em -210px 1em 1em;">
-<pre>
-.run benchmark
-</pre>
-</div>
-
<p>
<b>Jokes aside, Perl is alive and well.</b>
-It is an excellent choice for new applications, and
-it has &ndash; by far &ndash; the fastest startup time among
-all its competitors, as you can see in the figure to the right.
+It is an excellent choice for new applications.
+As you can see on the right, it has the fastest startup time <em>by
+far</em> among its competitors.
Every millisecond counts if you're building a command-line utility.
<p>
@@ -38,36 +39,97 @@ Every millisecond counts if you're building a command-line utility.
into the 2020s</b>. Below is a summary of the recent activity of various
Perl forums as of
.eval print scalar localtime, ".\n";
+</td>
-<div class="box" id="p5p" style="margin-left: -100px; width: 460px;">
-<h2>Latest messages on the <a href="https://lists.perl.org/list/perl5-porters.html">perl5-porters</a> mailing list</h2>
+<td>
+<pre>
+.run benchmark
+</pre>
+</td>
+
+</tr>
+
+<tr class="heading-row">
+<td class="heading-cell" colspan="2">
+<h2 class="heading" id="community">Overview of the Perl community</h2>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+
+<td id="p5p">
+<h3>Latest messages on the <a href="https://lists.perl.org/list/perl5-porters.html">perl5-porters</a> list</h3>
.run p5p
-</div>
+</td>
-<div class="box" id="blogs">
-<h2>Latest articles on <a href="http://blogs.perl.org">blogs.perl.org</a></h2>
+<td id="blogs">
+<h3>Latest articles on <a href="http://blogs.perl.org">blogs.perl.org</a></h3>
.run blogs
-</div>
+</td>
-<div class="box" id="reddit">
-<h2>Latest posts on the <a href="https://reddit.com/r/perl">/r/perl</a> subreddit</h2>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+
+<td id="perlmonks">
+<h3>Latest nodes on <a href="https://www.perlmonks.org">PerlMonks</a></h3>
+.run perlmonks
+</td>
+
+<td id="reddit">
+<h3>Latest posts on the <a href="https://reddit.com/r/perl">/r/perl</a> subreddit</h3>
.run reddit
-</div>
+</td>
-<div class="box" id="irc">
-<h2>Latest activity on the <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.freenode.net/#perl">#perl</a> IRC channel</h2>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+
+<td id="cpan">
+<h3>Latest uploads to <a href="https://metacpan.org">CPAN</a></h3>
+.run cpan
+</td>
+
+<td id="irc">
+<h3>Recent activity on the <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.freenode.net/#perl">#perl</a> IRC channel</h3>
.run irc
-</div>
+</td>
-<div class="box" id="perlmonks">
-<h2>Latest nodes on <a href="https://www.perlmonks.org">PerlMonks</a></h2>
-.run perlmonks
-</div>
+</tr>
-<div class="box" id="cpan">
-<h2>Latest uploads to <a href="https://metacpan.org">CPAN</a></h2>
-.run cpan
-</div>
+<!--
+<tr class="heading-row">
+<td class="heading-cell" colspan="2">
+<h2 class="heading" id="learn">Learn more</h2>
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">
+<ul style="width: 60%; margin: 0 auto;">
+<li>Basic introduction:
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro">perlintro &ndash; a brief introduction and overview of Perl</a>
+<li><a href="https://qntm.org/perl_en">Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes</a>
+</ul>
+<li>Further education:
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://perldoc.perl.org/perl#Tutorials">List of tutorial man pages</a>
+<li><a href="https://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html">How to install CPAN modules</a>
+</ul>
+</ul>
+</td>
+</tr>
+-->
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">
+<p id="footer">
+Created and maintained by <a href="http://john.ankarstrom.se/">John Ankarström</a>, a.k.a. johnaj.
+<br/>Last updated on
+.eval print scalar localtime, ".\n";
+</td>
+</tr>
+
+</table>
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