Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:54:31 +0100
From: happy.barney@hidden.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Branislav_Zahradn=C3=ADk?=)
"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 Thu Nov 21 12:00:28 2024.
$ time date
Thu Nov 21 12:00:28 CET 2024
real 0m0.005s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
$ time perl -le 'print "Hello world!"'
Hello world!
real 0m0.017s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
$ time python3.8 -c 'print("Hello world!")'
/usr/local/bin/bash: line 1: python3.8: command not found
real 0m0.004s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
$ time ruby30 -le 'print "Hello world!"'
/usr/local/bin/bash: line 1: ruby30: command not found
real 0m0.004s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
Overview of the Perl community
Latest messages on the perl5-porters list
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:18:22 +0100
From: curtis.poe@hidden.com (Ovid)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:11:59 +0100 (CET)
From: perl5-porters@hidden.org ("=?UTF-8?Q?Smylers=20=C2=A0?=" via perl5-porters)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:06:41 +0100
From: fontani@hidden.com (Marco Fontani)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:12:30 +0000
From: leonerd@hidden.org.uk ("Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans")
Latest articles on blogs.perl.org
Date: Thu, 21 November 2024 01:39:22 UTC
From: Brett Estrade
Date: Sat, 16 November 2024 03:34:31 UTC
From: Perl Steering Council
Date: Fri, 8 November 2024 05:53:46 UTC
From: Perl Steering Council
Date: Thu, 7 November 2024 15:55:46 UTC
From: karjala
Latest nodes on PerlMonks
Date: Thu, 21 November 2024 05:54:48 UTC
From: Discipulus
Date: Thu, 21 November 2024 02:23:35 UTC
From: Krambambuli
Latest posts on the /r/perl subreddit
Date: Wed, 20 November 2024 12:31:11 UTC
From: /u/briandfoy
Date: Wed, 20 November 2024 12:31:10 UTC
From: /u/briandfoy
Date: Tue, 19 November 2024 12:31:14 UTC
From: /u/briandfoy
Latest uploads to CPAN
Recent activity on the #perl IRC channel
