My lightning talk from the 2015 London Perl Workshop

1. Improving
Dev
Assistant

2. Decreasing the
amount of
PERL
in the world

3. Dev Assistant
http://www.devassistant.org/

7. Let's look
at the code

8. package myClass;
use strict;
use warnings;
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my $self = {
_hotelName => shift,
_street => shift,
_name => shift,
_date => undef
};
bless $self, $class;
return $self;
}

9. sub enterBookedDate {
my ($self) = shift;
my $date = shift;
$self->{_date} = $date;
}
sub getHotelName {
my $self = shift;
return $self->{_hotelName};
}
# etc ...

10. #!/usr/bin/perl
#use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
use myClass;
my $myClass = new myClass( "Holiday", "Baker Street", "Sherlock Holme
my $tm = strftime "%m/%d/%Y", localtime;
$myClass->enterBookedDate($tm);
print ("The hotel name is ". $myClass->getHotelName() . "n");
print ("The hotel street is ". $myClass->getStreet() . "n");
print ("The hotel is booked on the name ". $myClass->getGuestName() .
print ("Accomodation starts at " . $myClass->getBookedDate() . "n");

11. I don't use
tools like this

12. You probably
don't use
tools like this

13. But a lot of
people DO
use tools
like this

14. These people
are getting
a bad first
impression
of Perl

15. Perl
or
PERL?

16. But the
project is on
Github

17. Fork

18. Hack
Hack
Hack

19. Pull
Request

22. Merged
within a
couple of
hours

23. Released a
few weeks
later

25. Merged
within 24
hours

26. Project
team very
appreciative

27. (Obviously
not Perl
programmers)

28. They would
really like
more help

29. It's not
hard to do

30. Easy way
to make a
difference

31. https://github.com/devassistant/dap-perl/

34. These people are
treating Perl as a
first-class
language

35. But they
aren't
first-class Perl
programmers

36. They would
like our
help

37. They
appreciate
our help

38. Why
wouldn't
you help
them?

39. Get
forking!

40. Dave Cross
dave@perlhacks.com
@davorg