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<title>Perl is Dead</title>
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<meta name="description" content=""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."/>
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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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.run benchmark
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<b>Jokes aside, Perl is alive and well.</b>
It is an excellent choice for new applications, and
it has – by far – the fastest startup time among
all its competitors, as you can see in the figure to the right.
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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<h2>Latest messages on the <a href="https://lists.perl.org/list/perl5-porters.html">perl5-porters</a> mailing list</h2>
.run p5p
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<h2>Latest articles on <a href="http://blogs.perl.org">blogs.perl.org</a></h2>
.run blogs
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<h2>Latest posts on the <a href="https://reddit.com/r/perl">/r/perl</a> subreddit</h2>
.run reddit
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<h2>Latest activity on the <a href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.freenode.net/#perl">#perl</a> IRC channel</h2>
.run irc
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<h2>Latest nodes on <a href="https://www.perlmonks.org">PerlMonks</a></h2>
.run perlmonks
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<h2>Latest uploads to <a href="https://metacpan.org">CPAN</a></h2>
.run cpan
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