Happy Birthday Perl 5!
Happy Birthday Perl 5 The first full release of Perl 5 was exactly five years ago, on 17 October, 1994. (Not 18 October as perlhist says.) Happy birthday, Perl, and congratulations to Larry and the cast of thousands! Oh, and…
This Week on p5p 1999/10/17
(11-17 October 1999) -> Introduction New Development Release 5.005_62 Unicode Character Classes Module Bundling and the proposed import pragma use fields allows overlapping member names PREPARE functions and my Class $foo declarations goto Out of Conditional Bug Regex Range Bug…
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This Week on p5p 1999/10/24
(18-24 October 1999) -> $^O STOP blocks and the broken compiler Blank lines in POD PERL_HEADER environment variable Out of date modules in Perl distribution Enhanced UNIVERSAL::isa sort improvements glob case-sensitivity reftype function New perlthread man page Win32 and fork()…
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Open Source Highlights
Overview August 21 - 24, 1999 My main reason for attending the Open Source Conference is to observe Open Source developments and to gather business intelligence for Chevron. I learned Python. I also concentrated on understanding the business case…
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Topaz: Perl for the 22nd Century
Introduction One of the more interesting talks at the O’Reilly 1999 Open Source Convention was by Chip Salzenberg, one of the core developers of Perl. He described his work on Topaz, a new effort to completely re-write the internals…
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White Camel Awards
The Perl Conference brought us the first “White Camel” awards. The White Camel Awards were created to honor individuals who devote remarkable creativity, energy, and time to the non-technical work that supports Perl’s active and loyal user community. The…
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3rd State of the Onion
This talk was delivered by Larry Wall on August 23, 1999 at the Perl Conference 3.0 in Monterey, CA. (Note: most of the pictures this year were images of molecules that I animated using a program called RasMol, along…
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A New Edition of www.perl.com
I’d like to welcome you to this new edition of www.perl.com and tell you about some of the changes we made to the site. Easier Navigation We simplified the navigation menu so that it’s easy to find the site’s…
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Dispatch from YAPC
Yet Another Perl Conference, also known as YAPC, wasn’t just another conference, it was incredible. Kevin Lenzo YAPC was thought up and coordinated by Kevin Lenzo of Carnegie Mellon University. The idea was to have a "grass roots" Perl…
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White Camel Awards to be Presented at O'Reilly's Perl Conference 3.0
Coming soon - our nomination form for the first White Camel Awards. Let us know who you think has made outstanding contributions to Perl Advocacy, Perl User Groups, and the Perl Community. The White Camel awards will be presented…
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Microsoft to Fund Perl Development
If the good news is that the world’s largest software company has recognized the value of Perl and they are willing to fund new Perl development, then you know the bad news. Microsoft has entered into a three-year agreement…
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Perl, the first postmodern computer language
Perl, the first postmodern computer language The following is the text of Larry Wall’s talk at Linux World on Wednesday, March 3. He explains why Perl is a fitting language for the postmodern era. As a member of the audience…
