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"Perl is dead" 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. The rumour began circulating around 2000, but grew in popularity after being reported on American news site Slashdot in 2005. Proponents based the theory on perceived clues found in Wall speeches and Perl book covers. Clue-hunting proved infectious, and within a few weeks had become an international phenomenon. (paraphrased from Wikipedia…) Jokes aside, Perl is alive and well. It is an excellent choice for new applications. As you can see on the right, it has the fastest startup time by far among its competitors. Every millisecond counts if you're building a command-line utility. Furthermore, the language and its community continue to evolve into the 2020s. Below is a summary of the recent activity of various Perl forums as of .eval print scalar localtime, ".\n"; |
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Overview of the Perl community |
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Latest messages on the perl5-porters list.run p5p |
Latest articles on blogs.perl.org.run blogs |
Latest nodes on PerlMonks.run perlmonks |
Latest posts on the /r/perl subreddit.run reddit |
Latest uploads to CPAN.run cpan |
Recent activity on the #perl IRC channel.run irc |