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<h1 id="title"> Perl Is Dead<span style="color: #ccc;">?</span></h1>
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<b>"Perl is dead"</b> 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.
<cite>(paraphrased from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead">Wikipedia</a>…)</cite>
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<b>Jokes aside, Perl is alive and well.</b>
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.
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<b>Furthermore, the language and its community continue to evolve
into the 2020s</b>. Below is a summary of the recent activity of various
Perl forums as of
.eval print scalar localtime, ".\n";
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.run benchmark
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<h2 class="heading" id="community">Overview of the Perl community</h2>
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<h3>Latest messages on the <a href="https://lists.perl.org/list/perl5-porters.html">perl5-porters</a> list</h3>
.run p5p
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<h3>Latest articles on <a href="http://blogs.perl.org">blogs.perl.org</a></h3>
.run blogs
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<h3>Latest nodes on <a href="https://www.perlmonks.org">PerlMonks</a></h3>
.run perlmonks
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<h3>Latest posts on the <a href="https://reddit.com/r/perl">/r/perl</a> subreddit</h3>
.run reddit
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<h3>Latest uploads to <a href="https://metacpan.org">CPAN</a></h3>
.run cpan
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<h3>Recent activity on the <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/#perl">#perl</a> IRC channel</h3>
.run irc
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<li>Basic introduction:
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<li><a href="https://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro">perlintro – 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>
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<li>Further education:
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<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>
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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";
<br/><a href="http://git.ankarstrom.se/perlisdead/">View source</a>
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