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Old Dogs & New Tricks: What's New With Perl5 This Century

The document provides a summary of updates and improvements to the Perl programming language from 2001 to 2017. Some key points include: - After a period of slow development from 2001-2007, Perl saw a "renaissance" starting in 2010 with regular yearly releases and a predictable development cycle. - Many language improvements were made, such as improved Unicode support, the defined-or operator, non-destructive regular expressions, and subroutine signatures. - New tools like Perlbrew, plenv, local::lib, and cpanm were created to more easily install and manage Perl versions and modules. - The talk encourages using a "modern Perl" approach with new tools rather than relying on the

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Old Dogs & New Tricks: What's New with Perl5 This Century John SJ Anderson ⭐ Infinity Interactive ⭐ @genehack Ohio LinuxFest 2017 ⭐ 29 September 2017
Disclaimer I'mma talk pretty fast. Feel free to ask questions particularly if I'm moving too quickly
Hi I'm John • VP Tech, Infinity Interactive • Ex-biologist • Linux • Perl tribe • Polyglot coder • Just this guy, you know? meet me!
I'M JUST A CAVEMAN YOUR “MODERN PERL” FRIGHTENS AND CONFUSES ME I was inspired to write this talk by a few online friends who happen to be Perl programmers -- but they're not engaged with the community, they're just using Perl to get a job done, and there's a widening gulf between what I think is reasonable and what they're doing -- so I wanted to put together sort of an info dump to bring people up to speed. this talk is going to a wide-ranging survey of what's happened in Perl in the last decade or so.
Perl6 was released! but this talk is about perl5, so that's the last i'm going to talk about perl6
but Perl6 != Perl5 but this talk is about perl5, so that's the last i'm going to talk about perl6
2001 Perl 5.6
2017 Perl 5.26 But we're all the way up to 5.26 now. So let's talk about that 17 year gap...
We had some bad years there was a rough patch
5.6.0 - 22 Mar 2000 5.8.0 - 18 Jul 2002 5.10.0 - 18 Dec 2007 5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 here's the release dates for several perl versions, starting with 5.6 (latest and greatest in 2001, remember) *mention even-odd numbering convention*
5.6.0 - 22 Mar 2000 5.8.0 - 18 Jul 2002 5.10.0 - 18 Dec 2007 5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 see that five year gap there? yeah, those were not great times.
5.6.0 - 22 Mar 2000 5.8.0 - 18 Jul 2002 5.10.0 - 18 Dec 2007 5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 but, starting with 5.10, which sort of brought perl 5 back to life, and then particularly, since 5.12, we've had this great thing! ...
Regular release cycle a regular, predictable release cycle!
5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 5.14.0 - 14 May 2011 5.16.0 - 20 May 2012 5.18.0 - 18 May 2013 5.20.0 - 27 May 2014 5.22.0 - 01 Jun 2015 5.24.0 - 09 May 2016 5.26.0 - 30 May 2017 here are all the releases since 5.12. notice anything?
5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 5.14.0 - 14 May 2011 5.16.0 - 20 May 2012 5.18.0 - 18 May 2013 5.20.0 - 27 May 2014 5.22.0 - 01 Jun 2015 5.24.0 - 09 May 2016 5.26.0 - 30 May 2017 see those nice regular predictable releases, happening every year like clockwork? that's pretty cool. underlying this is a regular series of dev releases (those are in odd numbered versions, e.g. 5.23 is the series of dev releases between 5.22 and 5.24), which happen on a monthly cycle
Perl5 pumpking credit for starting and more importantly continuing this goes to a couple of p5 pumpkings, which is what we call the person who is in charge of the Perl5 effort -- our Benevolent Dictator for the Moment, if you will
5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 5.14.0 - 14 May 2011 5.16.0 - 20 May 2012 5.18.0 - 18 May 2013 5.20.0 - 27 May 2014 5.22.0 - 01 Jun 2015 5.24.0 - 09 May 2016 5.26.0 - 30 May 2017 Jesse Rik Sawyer there were three pumpkings involved in this, Jesse Vincent for 5.12 and 5.14, and then Rik Signes for 5.16 thru 5.24, then Sawyer X for 5.26 (which just came out a few months ago)
Regular release cycle getting back onto a regular predictable release cycle has arguably been the single greatest factor keeping Perl5 relevant and catalyzing the Perl "Renaissance" you may be hearing about
❤ Jesse ❤ Rik ❤ Sawyer much respect to Jesse, Rik, and Sawyer for the work involved in this, it was *not* a trivial undertaking to start or to keep going.
❤ Sawyer this is also a good time to mention that Rik retired from the pumpking role after releasing 5.24.0, and our new pumpking is Sawyer. Sawyer is great and as you can see from this picture, he *really* loves hugs, so be sure to give him one when you see him at a conference.
Modern Perl modernperlbooks.com Another catalyst for the Perl Renaissance is the book "Modern Perl", written by chromatic. He has made this freely available online; you can also purchase a paper copy if that's how you roll.
❤ chromatic modernperlbooks.com Writing this book was a tremendous effort and it's an absolutely essential read if you want to understand what we call "Modern Perl", or how we do Perl in the 21st century.
Many language improvements One of the main benefits of the regular release cycle has been a number of language improvements. I'm only going to talk about a few today, but you can always read the 'perldeltas', or change summaries that come out with each new release.
Unicode support! In 2001, the world of Perl 5.6, Unicode existed but wasn't very well understood or very widely used. Today, of course, we live in a Unicode world, and it's something all programmers and languages have to deal with. It's kinda too complicated to get into here, so I'm just going to say that now we can get _really_ expressive in our Perl code
$code = "😀"; So it's much easier to tell if we're happy...
$code = "💩"; ... or when things aren't going quite as well.
false values: 0, '', ( ), undef everything else is true undefined values: undef everything else is defined Quick Perl background Before I can explain this next one, I need to do a brief refresher on a couple of aspects of Perl. Perl has the usual notion of true/false. These four values are false; everything else is true. 'undef' is a special value; it's what Perl gives to a newly declared but uninitialized variable. That means there's this additional dimension of defined/undefined we have to deal with
Boolean operators (or, and) look at truthiness. Many times, only invalid value for something is undef. So can't look at truthiness; must look at definedness Quick Perl background Now, Perl's Boolean operations *only* look at true/false. They don't care about defined/undefined at all, except for how undef is false. But many times, you don't end up caring about true/false, you care about def/undef
if ( defined($this) ) { $value = $this } else { # use default $value = $that } So that leads to writing code that looks like this... *explain code*
$value = defined($this) ? $this : $that The more idiomatic way of writing that code is to use the ternary operator -- this just does the same thing as the previous slide in a more compact way
$value = $this // $that defined-or Now that I've given you that background, now I can explain this great new feature we got in 5.10, called 'defined-or'. It let's you write that code like so. Which is pretty awesome. Defined-or was my favorite new perl feature of the 2000s
$this //= 'default' # much like this, but… $this ||= 'default' defined-or You can also combine this with assignment, in much the same way you can say ||= for 'or equals'
my $copy = $orig; $copy =~ s/swap/stuff/; Regular expressions are a big part of Perl programming, including substitution style regexps. If you want to apply a substitution to a variable but _not_ change your original value, you need to do something like this - make a copy, then do the sub on the copy
(my $copy = $orig) =~ s/swap/stuff/; and this is just a more idiomatic way to do the same thing.
(my $copy = $orig) =~ s/swap/stuff/; this makes the copy (and the parens are *required*)...
(my $copy = $orig) =~ s/swap/stuff/; and then this applies the sub to the result of the left hand side, which means $copy gets changed and $orig is left unchanged
my $copy = $orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// new in 5.14, we have a new way do this. don't need the parens. the key here is ...
my $copy = $orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// this 'r' modifier to the regexp, which makes
my $copy = $orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// this part return the result of applying the sub to $orig (hence, 'r' - for return)
my $copy = $orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// and then we just assign that to $copy. Again, new as of 5.15
double diamond <<>> We also got something called the 'double diamond' operator in 5.22
diamond <> This is related to the classic 'diamond' operator, which is used when processing files that are passed as arguments on the command line
# loop over files from command line while (<>) { # do something with each line } # call like 'script.pl file1 file2 file3' using the diamond operator typically looks like this, you'll have a script with this while loop, and then call it with a bunch of files on the command line. this will loop over the lines in file1, then file2, then file3, running the loop body for each one
problem! <> uses 2-arg open semantics! the problem with this is <> uses 2 argument open(). why is that bad?
2-arg open open(IN, '< file'); this is what we call a 2 arg open call. we're opening a file, for reading, and attaching it to a file handle called IN
2-arg open open(IN, '< file'); this thing right here, in front of the file name, is how you want to open the file. this is open for reading.
2-arg open open(IN, '> file'); where as this is open for writing. (and if you wrote this code and called the file handle IN, we can't be friends.) 2 arg is bad, because if 'file' is actually in a variable, and somehow that variable gets a '>' or '<' or '|' in it, unexpected things happen
3-arg open open($in, '<', 'file'); this is how we write that code these days, the three argument form. here the file name is just used literally, and if it gets one of those punctuation chars in it, you'll get an error rather than a bad surprise
problem! <> uses 2-arg open semantics! so, the problem is <> uses the 2-arg form...
Means that this: script.pl '> file1' is gonna be a bad time So doing something like this will open 'file1' for writing, clobbering whatever is there.
whoops.
<<>> fixes this. again, available as of 5.22
subroutine signatures Finally, and I think this is maybe _the_ biggest feature this decade, we've also recently gotten support for subroutine signatures in 5.20
sub add { my ($one, $two) = @_; return $one + $two; } this is how you might write a simple perl function to add together two numbers. the @_ is a special variable that's used to pass in the arguments for the function.
sub add { my ($one, $two) = @_; return $one + $two; } This bit in the first line is called "unpacking @_", and code like this is at the top of literally almost every Perl function *EVER*
sub add ($one, $two) { return $one + $two; } this code does the exact same thing!
sub add ($one, $two) { return $one + $two; } so we don't even have to unpack @_ ourselves! you can even provide default values, validate arguments in the function signature, and all sorts of crazy stuff Who has started using subroutine signatures? They're still experimental, but hopefully will be non-experimental in 5.26
new tools It's not just language level features, we also have a host of new tools to make it easier to work with Perl
"system" perl: These days, we make a distinction between the Perl that comes with your OS
"system" perl: just say no and encourage people not to use it for their development projects
/usr/bin/perl Yes, that means good old /usr/bin/perl...
/usr/bin/perl is no more. Instead, we use tools to install new Perls, outside the control of the OS
perlbrew The first tool that was developed for this purpose is called Perlbrew
perlbrew.pl which you can get at perlbrew.pl
plenv there's also a newer option, plenv
https://github.com/tokuhirom/plenv its website isn't quite as snazzy as perlbrew's
advantages • Solves "vendor Perl lockin" issues • Install multiple Perls in your home directory • ... or elsewhere • Trivially switch from Perl version to Perl version • Able to install modules without special permissions • Easy to stay up to date with Perl development either one of these tools will give you numerous advantages over using the system perl
plenv > perlbrew • Less magic messing around with $PATH • Can "pin" Perl different ways: globally, per-shell, or per-directory personally, i'm using plenv these days -- the ability to easily specify a Perl version for a particular project is particularly useful to me
perlbrew > plenv • Kicka** website
speaking of installing... we also have a few new tools that make installing and managing modules easier
local::lib one of them is a module called local::lib
local::lib • Install your own copies of modules • In your $HOME (so no special permissions needed) • Can also install per-project modules • Integrates well with other tools • Not going to go into how to make it work, but the docs are great!
❤ mst originally developed by matt trout, so thanks matt
speaking of installation tools…
cpanminus a/k/a cpanm We've got a new CPAN client these days, cpanminus
% cpan Git::Wrapper CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.54) Reading '/Users/genehack/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Sat, 10 Oct 2015 01:17:02 GMT Running install for module 'Git::Wrapper' CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.13) Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.schatt.com/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v1.15) CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.95) Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.schatt.com/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/CHECKSUMS CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.068) Checksum for /Users/genehack/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ok tmp-47326 for tmp-47326: No such file or directory at /opt/plenv/versions/5.23.2/lib/perl5/5.23.2/CPAN/ Distribution .pm line 468. CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.2304) CPAN: CPAN::Meta::Requirements loaded ok (v2.133) CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.4417) CPAN: CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.150005) CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v5.20150820) Configuring G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz with Makefile.PL Locating bin:git... found at /opt/git/bin/git. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Generating a Unix-style Makefile Writing Makefile for Git::Wrapper Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json this is the output from using the default 'cpan' client to install something.
GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz [17/1516] /opt/plenv/versions/5.23.2/bin/perl5.23.2 Makefile.PL -- OK Running make for G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz cp lib/Git/Wrapper/File/RawModification.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/File/RawModification.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Statuses.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Statuses.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Exception.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Exception.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Log.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Log.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Status.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Status.pm Manifying 6 pod documents GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz /usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/opt/plenv/versions/5.23.2/bin/perl5.23.2" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "und ef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/00-load.t ............... 1/6 # Testing Git::Wrapper 0.045 t/00-load.t ............... ok t/author-err.t ............ skipped: these tests are for testing by the author t/basic.t ................. # Testing git version: 2.5.2 t/basic.t ................. ok t/git_binary.t ............ ok t/parse_args.t ............ ok t/path_class.t ............ # Testing git version: 2.5.2 t/path_class.t ............ ok t/release-pod-coverage.t .. skipped: these tests are for release candidate testing t/release-pod-syntax.t .... skipped: these tests are for release candidate testing All tests successful. Files=8, Tests=67, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr 0.02 sys + 0.39 cusr 0.31 csys = 0.76 CPU) Result: PASS GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz and this is more of the output...
(still not done but I got tired of pasting.)
% cpanm Git::Wrapper --> Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045 this is the output from cpanm installing the same thing
% cpanm Git::Wrapper --> Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045 this is the output from cpanm installing the same thing
cpanminus a/k/a cpanm
carton Another tool, carton, helps manage your module dependencies in a project. Particularly useful for large projects with multiple devs
Like bundler but for Perl it's like ruby's bundler, but for perl modules
Freeze deps,so you always install same versions across dev/staging/prod
❤ Miyagawa both cpanm and carton were developed by Miyagawa; many thanks to him!
pinto Another tool, pinto, let's you have your own private CPAN within your organization. Great if you have a number of devs working on things independently, because folks can do releases, make modules available, without having to build system packages
Your very own private CPAN Another tool, pinto, let's you have your own private CPAN within your organization. Great if you have a number of devs working on things independently, because folks can do releases, make modules available, without having to build system packages
❤ Jeff Thalhammer pinto was developed by Jeff Thalhammer
speaking of stuff on CPAN… so, CPAN...
metacpan.org we have a whole new website for interacting with CPAN
search.cpan.org search.cpan.org is still around...
but metacpan integrates and visualizes a bunch of information in a really useful way
things like a syntax-highlighted source view, linking to home pages and code repos, showing test results, and the amount of activity in a project
https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web it's also open source, so if you can think of a way to make it better, you can
❤ MetaCPAN team thanks to the whole metacpan team for all their hard work
Duck Duck Go we also have a new search engine here in 2016. it's cool, and it's partially written in Perl
Duck Duck Go !cpanm The most useful feature, though, is ability to use 'bang searches' to restrict your search to a particular site - this is how you search metacpan
speaking of modules... if you haven't been playing close attention to perl community goings on, there are a few new modules you may have missed
JSON::MaybeXS anybody doing web development these days needs to interact with JSON - using JSON::MaybeXS will make sure that you have a JSON library available, picking the best one from a number of alternatives
Cpanel!::JSON!::XS JSON!::XS JSON!::PP here's how the fallback works -- and if you install JSON::MaybeXS and don't have any of these installed, it will require Cpanel::JSON::XS (as long as you have a compiler to build the XS)
Moose Moo To get a handle on how we do OOP in Perl these days, you should look into Moose -- and then when you're ready to write some code, you'll probably be able to get away with dropping down to Moo
CGI.pm is gone I do have some bad news for you -- CGI.pm has been pulled out of core
(not really) don't worry, you can still find it on CPAN
Plack But the current standard for web development in Perl is Plack/PSGI. Offers a number of advantages over CGI, and is the basis for all modern Perl web frameworks
speaking of Perl websites… we have quite a few new websites these days, which make it easier to keep up with the current state of things
Perl 5 Porters mailing list summaries! In a recent development, sawyer has revived the p5p weekly email summary -- excellent if you want to keep up with what's going on with perl5 development but don't have time to follow the email list yourself
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/ and in a recent development, sawyer has revived the p5p weekly email summary -- excellent if you want to keep up with what's going on with perl5 development but don't have time to follow the email list yourself
http://cpanratings.perl.org/ one of the problems with cpan is there's just _so_ _much_ _stuff_ there. it can be hard to decide which one of a dozen different modules to use. cpanratings helps with this problem
http://cpanratings.perl.org/ you can see individual reviews, which version they're reviewing, and so on. one downside - because ratings are about a particular version, may not reflect current module state
https://metacpan.org/ MetaCPAN links to reviews as well as showing an average review score
http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/ we also have CPANTS - automated testing of some best practices around module development
http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/ here's what that looks like for a particular module. super useful if you're not sure you're doing things the "right" way
http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/author/GENEHACK can also see modules by author, which can be useful when trying to decide whether to use somebody's code
https://metacpan.org/ MetaCPAN links to CPANTS too
https://metacpan.org/ MetaCPAN links to cpantesters as well
% cpanm Git::Wrapper --> Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045
% cpanm Git::Wrapper --> Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045
cpantesters.org
STEAL. THIS.
STEAL. THIS. please!
speaking of Perl community… finally, you really should consider becoming more actively involved with the perl community, if you're working with (or even just playing with) perl
finally, you really should consider becoming more actively involved with the perl community, if you're working with (or even just playing with) perl
Conferences & Workshops & Mongers (oh my.) big conferences: YAPC, once a year (or so), in North America, Europe, Asia. Sometimes Brazil, Russia too workshops: smaller, regional. Pittsburgh, DC-Baltimore, Orlando perl mongers groups: like MasterCard, we *errywhere* you want to be
http://www.pm.org/groups/north_america.html finally, you really should consider becoming more actively involved with the perl community, if you're working with (or even just playing with) perl, there's probably a local perl mongers group near you
http://columbus.pm.org/ here's the columbus one!
cincy and cleveland too!
http://perlweekly.com/ finally, let me give a big shout out to perl weekly, which is a once a week email newsletter and website aggregating perl related news from all over the web if you're only going to pay attention to one perl thing, perl weekly is your best choice! sign up at perlweekly.com
thanks! thanks to the organizers for accepting my talk, thanks to all of you for attending and participating ...
thanks to my employer for giving me the time to write this talk and sending me here to deliver it
Questions? any questions? (mention feedback link)

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Old Dogs & New Tricks: What's New With Perl5 This Century

  • 1.
    Old Dogs &New Tricks: What's New with Perl5 This Century John SJ Anderson ⭐ Infinity Interactive ⭐ @genehack Ohio LinuxFest 2017 ⭐ 29 September 2017
  • 2.
    Disclaimer I'mma talk prettyfast. Feel free to ask questions particularly if I'm moving too quickly
  • 3.
    Hi I'm John •VP Tech, Infinity Interactive • Ex-biologist • Linux • Perl tribe • Polyglot coder • Just this guy, you know? meet me!
  • 4.
    I'M JUST ACAVEMAN YOUR “MODERN PERL” FRIGHTENS AND CONFUSES ME I was inspired to write this talk by a few online friends who happen to be Perl programmers -- but they're not engaged with the community, they're just using Perl to get a job done, and there's a widening gulf between what I think is reasonable and what they're doing -- so I wanted to put together sort of an info dump to bring people up to speed. this talk is going to a wide-ranging survey of what's happened in Perl in the last decade or so.
  • 5.
    Perl6 was released! butthis talk is about perl5, so that's the last i'm going to talk about perl6
  • 6.
    but Perl6 !=Perl5 but this talk is about perl5, so that's the last i'm going to talk about perl6
  • 7.
  • 8.
    2017 Perl 5.26 But we'reall the way up to 5.26 now. So let's talk about that 17 year gap...
  • 9.
    We had some badyears there was a rough patch
  • 10.
    5.6.0 - 22Mar 2000 5.8.0 - 18 Jul 2002 5.10.0 - 18 Dec 2007 5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 here's the release dates for several perl versions, starting with 5.6 (latest and greatest in 2001, remember) *mention even-odd numbering convention*
  • 11.
    5.6.0 - 22Mar 2000 5.8.0 - 18 Jul 2002 5.10.0 - 18 Dec 2007 5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 see that five year gap there? yeah, those were not great times.
  • 12.
    5.6.0 - 22Mar 2000 5.8.0 - 18 Jul 2002 5.10.0 - 18 Dec 2007 5.12.0 - 12 April 2010 but, starting with 5.10, which sort of brought perl 5 back to life, and then particularly, since 5.12, we've had this great thing! ...
  • 13.
  • 14.
    5.12.0 - 12April 2010 5.14.0 - 14 May 2011 5.16.0 - 20 May 2012 5.18.0 - 18 May 2013 5.20.0 - 27 May 2014 5.22.0 - 01 Jun 2015 5.24.0 - 09 May 2016 5.26.0 - 30 May 2017 here are all the releases since 5.12. notice anything?
  • 15.
    5.12.0 - 12April 2010 5.14.0 - 14 May 2011 5.16.0 - 20 May 2012 5.18.0 - 18 May 2013 5.20.0 - 27 May 2014 5.22.0 - 01 Jun 2015 5.24.0 - 09 May 2016 5.26.0 - 30 May 2017 see those nice regular predictable releases, happening every year like clockwork? that's pretty cool. underlying this is a regular series of dev releases (those are in odd numbered versions, e.g. 5.23 is the series of dev releases between 5.22 and 5.24), which happen on a monthly cycle
  • 16.
    Perl5 pumpking credit for startingand more importantly continuing this goes to a couple of p5 pumpkings, which is what we call the person who is in charge of the Perl5 effort -- our Benevolent Dictator for the Moment, if you will
  • 17.
    5.12.0 - 12April 2010 5.14.0 - 14 May 2011 5.16.0 - 20 May 2012 5.18.0 - 18 May 2013 5.20.0 - 27 May 2014 5.22.0 - 01 Jun 2015 5.24.0 - 09 May 2016 5.26.0 - 30 May 2017 Jesse Rik Sawyer there were three pumpkings involved in this, Jesse Vincent for 5.12 and 5.14, and then Rik Signes for 5.16 thru 5.24, then Sawyer X for 5.26 (which just came out a few months ago)
  • 18.
    Regular release cycle getting back ontoa regular predictable release cycle has arguably been the single greatest factor keeping Perl5 relevant and catalyzing the Perl "Renaissance" you may be hearing about
  • 19.
    ❤ Jesse ❤ Rik ❤Sawyer much respect to Jesse, Rik, and Sawyer for the work involved in this, it was *not* a trivial undertaking to start or to keep going.
  • 20.
    ❤ Sawyer this isalso a good time to mention that Rik retired from the pumpking role after releasing 5.24.0, and our new pumpking is Sawyer. Sawyer is great and as you can see from this picture, he *really* loves hugs, so be sure to give him one when you see him at a conference.
  • 21.
    Modern Perl modernperlbooks.com Another catalyst forthe Perl Renaissance is the book "Modern Perl", written by chromatic. He has made this freely available online; you can also purchase a paper copy if that's how you roll.
  • 22.
    ❤ chromatic modernperlbooks.com Writing this bookwas a tremendous effort and it's an absolutely essential read if you want to understand what we call "Modern Perl", or how we do Perl in the 21st century.
  • 23.
    Many language improvements One of themain benefits of the regular release cycle has been a number of language improvements. I'm only going to talk about a few today, but you can always read the 'perldeltas', or change summaries that come out with each new release.
  • 24.
    Unicode support! In 2001, theworld of Perl 5.6, Unicode existed but wasn't very well understood or very widely used. Today, of course, we live in a Unicode world, and it's something all programmers and languages have to deal with. It's kinda too complicated to get into here, so I'm just going to say that now we can get _really_ expressive in our Perl code
  • 25.
    $code = "😀"; Soit's much easier to tell if we're happy...
  • 26.
    $code = "💩"; ...or when things aren't going quite as well.
  • 27.
    false values: 0,'', ( ), undef everything else is true undefined values: undef everything else is defined Quick Perl background Before I can explain this next one, I need to do a brief refresher on a couple of aspects of Perl. Perl has the usual notion of true/false. These four values are false; everything else is true. 'undef' is a special value; it's what Perl gives to a newly declared but uninitialized variable. That means there's this additional dimension of defined/undefined we have to deal with
  • 28.
    Boolean operators (or,and) look at truthiness. Many times, only invalid value for something is undef. So can't look at truthiness; must look at definedness Quick Perl background Now, Perl's Boolean operations *only* look at true/false. They don't care about defined/undefined at all, except for how undef is false. But many times, you don't end up caring about true/false, you care about def/undef
  • 29.
    if ( defined($this)) { $value = $this } else { # use default $value = $that } So that leads to writing code that looks like this... *explain code*
  • 30.
    $value = defined($this)? $this : $that The more idiomatic way of writing that code is to use the ternary operator -- this just does the same thing as the previous slide in a more compact way
  • 31.
    $value = $this// $that defined-or Now that I've given you that background, now I can explain this great new feature we got in 5.10, called 'defined-or'. It let's you write that code like so. Which is pretty awesome. Defined-or was my favorite new perl feature of the 2000s
  • 32.
    $this //= 'default' #much like this, but… $this ||= 'default' defined-or You can also combine this with assignment, in much the same way you can say ||= for 'or equals'
  • 33.
    my $copy =$orig; $copy =~ s/swap/stuff/; Regular expressions are a big part of Perl programming, including substitution style regexps. If you want to apply a substitution to a variable but _not_ change your original value, you need to do something like this - make a copy, then do the sub on the copy
  • 34.
    (my $copy =$orig) =~ s/swap/stuff/; and this is just a more idiomatic way to do the same thing.
  • 35.
    (my $copy =$orig) =~ s/swap/stuff/; this makes the copy (and the parens are *required*)...
  • 36.
    (my $copy =$orig) =~ s/swap/stuff/; and then this applies the sub to the result of the left hand side, which means $copy gets changed and $orig is left unchanged
  • 37.
    my $copy =$orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// new in 5.14, we have a new way do this. don't need the parens. the key here is ...
  • 38.
    my $copy =$orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// this 'r' modifier to the regexp, which makes
  • 39.
    my $copy = $orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// this partreturn the result of applying the sub to $orig (hence, 'r' - for return)
  • 40.
    my $copy =$orig =~ s/swap/stuff/r; non-destructive s/// and then we just assign that to $copy. Again, new as of 5.15
  • 41.
    double diamond <<>> We also gotsomething called the 'double diamond' operator in 5.22
  • 42.
    diamond <> This is relatedto the classic 'diamond' operator, which is used when processing files that are passed as arguments on the command line
  • 43.
    # loop overfiles from command line while (<>) { # do something with each line } # call like 'script.pl file1 file2 file3' using the diamond operator typically looks like this, you'll have a script with this while loop, and then call it with a bunch of files on the command line. this will loop over the lines in file1, then file2, then file3, running the loop body for each one
  • 44.
    problem! <> uses 2-arg opensemantics! the problem with this is <> uses 2 argument open(). why is that bad?
  • 45.
    2-arg open open(IN, '<file'); this is what we call a 2 arg open call. we're opening a file, for reading, and attaching it to a file handle called IN
  • 46.
    2-arg open open(IN, '<file'); this thing right here, in front of the file name, is how you want to open the file. this is open for reading.
  • 47.
    2-arg open open(IN, '>file'); where as this is open for writing. (and if you wrote this code and called the file handle IN, we can't be friends.) 2 arg is bad, because if 'file' is actually in a variable, and somehow that variable gets a '>' or '<' or '|' in it, unexpected things happen
  • 48.
    3-arg open open($in, '<','file'); this is how we write that code these days, the three argument form. here the file name is just used literally, and if it gets one of those punctuation chars in it, you'll get an error rather than a bad surprise
  • 49.
    problem! <> uses 2-arg opensemantics! so, the problem is <> uses the 2-arg form...
  • 50.
    Means that this: script.pl'> file1' is gonna be a bad time So doing something like this will open 'file1' for writing, clobbering whatever is there.
  • 51.
  • 52.
    <<>> fixes this. again,available as of 5.22
  • 53.
    subroutine signatures Finally, and Ithink this is maybe _the_ biggest feature this decade, we've also recently gotten support for subroutine signatures in 5.20
  • 54.
    sub add { my($one, $two) = @_; return $one + $two; } this is how you might write a simple perl function to add together two numbers. the @_ is a special variable that's used to pass in the arguments for the function.
  • 55.
    sub add { my($one, $two) = @_; return $one + $two; } This bit in the first line is called "unpacking @_", and code like this is at the top of literally almost every Perl function *EVER*
  • 56.
    sub add ($one,$two) { return $one + $two; } this code does the exact same thing!
  • 57.
    sub add ($one,$two) { return $one + $two; } so we don't even have to unpack @_ ourselves! you can even provide default values, validate arguments in the function signature, and all sorts of crazy stuff Who has started using subroutine signatures? They're still experimental, but hopefully will be non-experimental in 5.26
  • 58.
    new tools It's notjust language level features, we also have a host of new tools to make it easier to work with Perl
  • 59.
    "system" perl: These days,we make a distinction between the Perl that comes with your OS
  • 60.
    "system" perl: just sayno and encourage people not to use it for their development projects
  • 61.
    /usr/bin/perl Yes, that meansgood old /usr/bin/perl...
  • 62.
    /usr/bin/perl is no more.Instead, we use tools to install new Perls, outside the control of the OS
  • 63.
    perlbrew The first toolthat was developed for this purpose is called Perlbrew
  • 64.
    perlbrew.pl which you canget at perlbrew.pl
  • 65.
    plenv there's also anewer option, plenv
  • 66.
  • 67.
    advantages • Solves "vendorPerl lockin" issues • Install multiple Perls in your home directory • ... or elsewhere • Trivially switch from Perl version to Perl version • Able to install modules without special permissions • Easy to stay up to date with Perl development either one of these tools will give you numerous advantages over using the system perl
  • 68.
    plenv > perlbrew •Less magic messing around with $PATH • Can "pin" Perl different ways: globally, per-shell, or per-directory personally, i'm using plenv these days -- the ability to easily specify a Perl version for a particular project is particularly useful to me
  • 69.
    perlbrew > plenv •Kicka** website
  • 70.
    speaking of installing... wealso have a few new tools that make installing and managing modules easier
  • 71.
    local::lib one of themis a module called local::lib
  • 72.
    local::lib • Install yourown copies of modules • In your $HOME (so no special permissions needed) • Can also install per-project modules • Integrates well with other tools • Not going to go into how to make it work, but the docs are great!
  • 73.
    ❤ mst originally developedby matt trout, so thanks matt
  • 74.
  • 75.
    cpanminus a/k/a cpanm We've got anew CPAN client these days, cpanminus
  • 76.
    % cpan Git::Wrapper CPAN:Storable loaded ok (v2.54) Reading '/Users/genehack/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Sat, 10 Oct 2015 01:17:02 GMT Running install for module 'Git::Wrapper' CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.13) Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.schatt.com/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v1.15) CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.95) Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.schatt.com/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/CHECKSUMS CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.068) Checksum for /Users/genehack/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ok tmp-47326 for tmp-47326: No such file or directory at /opt/plenv/versions/5.23.2/lib/perl5/5.23.2/CPAN/ Distribution .pm line 468. CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.2304) CPAN: CPAN::Meta::Requirements loaded ok (v2.133) CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.4417) CPAN: CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v2.150005) CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v5.20150820) Configuring G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz with Makefile.PL Locating bin:git... found at /opt/git/bin/git. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Generating a Unix-style Makefile Writing Makefile for Git::Wrapper Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json this is the output from using the default 'cpan' client to install something.
  • 77.
    GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz [17/1516] /opt/plenv/versions/5.23.2/bin/perl5.23.2 Makefile.PL-- OK Running make for G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz cp lib/Git/Wrapper/File/RawModification.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/File/RawModification.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Statuses.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Statuses.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Exception.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Exception.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Log.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Log.pm cp lib/Git/Wrapper/Status.pm blib/lib/Git/Wrapper/Status.pm Manifying 6 pod documents GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz /usr/bin/make -- OK Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/opt/plenv/versions/5.23.2/bin/perl5.23.2" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "und ef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/00-load.t ............... 1/6 # Testing Git::Wrapper 0.045 t/00-load.t ............... ok t/author-err.t ............ skipped: these tests are for testing by the author t/basic.t ................. # Testing git version: 2.5.2 t/basic.t ................. ok t/git_binary.t ............ ok t/parse_args.t ............ ok t/path_class.t ............ # Testing git version: 2.5.2 t/path_class.t ............ ok t/release-pod-coverage.t .. skipped: these tests are for release candidate testing t/release-pod-syntax.t .... skipped: these tests are for release candidate testing All tests successful. Files=8, Tests=67, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr 0.02 sys + 0.39 cusr 0.31 csys = 0.76 CPU) Result: PASS GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz and this is more of the output...
  • 78.
    (still not done butI got tired of pasting.)
  • 79.
    % cpanm Git::Wrapper -->Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045 this is the output from cpanm installing the same thing
  • 80.
    % cpanm Git::Wrapper -->Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045 this is the output from cpanm installing the same thing
  • 81.
  • 82.
    carton Another tool, carton,helps manage your module dependencies in a project. Particularly useful for large projects with multiple devs
  • 83.
    Like bundler but forPerl it's like ruby's bundler, but for perl modules
  • 84.
    Freeze deps,so you alwaysinstall same versions across dev/staging/prod
  • 85.
    ❤ Miyagawa both cpanmand carton were developed by Miyagawa; many thanks to him!
  • 86.
    pinto Another tool, pinto,let's you have your own private CPAN within your organization. Great if you have a number of devs working on things independently, because folks can do releases, make modules available, without having to build system packages
  • 87.
    Your very own privateCPAN Another tool, pinto, let's you have your own private CPAN within your organization. Great if you have a number of devs working on things independently, because folks can do releases, make modules available, without having to build system packages
  • 88.
    ❤ Jeff Thalhammer pintowas developed by Jeff Thalhammer
  • 89.
    speaking of stuffon CPAN… so, CPAN...
  • 90.
    metacpan.org we have awhole new website for interacting with CPAN
  • 91.
  • 92.
    but metacpan integratesand visualizes a bunch of information in a really useful way
  • 93.
    things like asyntax-highlighted source view, linking to home pages and code repos, showing test results, and the amount of activity in a project
  • 94.
    https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web it's also opensource, so if you can think of a way to make it better, you can
  • 95.
    ❤ MetaCPAN team thanksto the whole metacpan team for all their hard work
  • 96.
    Duck Duck Go wealso have a new search engine here in 2016. it's cool, and it's partially written in Perl
  • 97.
    Duck Duck Go !cpanm Themost useful feature, though, is ability to use 'bang searches' to restrict your search to a particular site - this is how you search metacpan
  • 98.
    speaking of modules... ifyou haven't been playing close attention to perl community goings on, there are a few new modules you may have missed
  • 99.
    JSON::MaybeXS anybody doing webdevelopment these days needs to interact with JSON - using JSON::MaybeXS will make sure that you have a JSON library available, picking the best one from a number of alternatives
  • 100.
    Cpanel!::JSON!::XS JSON!::XS JSON!::PP here's how thefallback works -- and if you install JSON::MaybeXS and don't have any of these installed, it will require Cpanel::JSON::XS (as long as you have a compiler to build the XS)
  • 101.
    Moose Moo To get ahandle on how we do OOP in Perl these days, you should look into Moose -- and then when you're ready to write some code, you'll probably be able to get away with dropping down to Moo
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    CGI.pm is gone I do havesome bad news for you -- CGI.pm has been pulled out of core
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    (not really) don't worry,you can still find it on CPAN
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    Plack But the currentstandard for web development in Perl is Plack/PSGI. Offers a number of advantages over CGI, and is the basis for all modern Perl web frameworks
  • 105.
    speaking of Perlwebsites… we have quite a few new websites these days, which make it easier to keep up with the current state of things
  • 106.
    Perl 5 Portersmailing list summaries! In a recent development, sawyer has revived the p5p weekly email summary -- excellent if you want to keep up with what's going on with perl5 development but don't have time to follow the email list yourself
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    http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/ and in arecent development, sawyer has revived the p5p weekly email summary -- excellent if you want to keep up with what's going on with perl5 development but don't have time to follow the email list yourself
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    http://cpanratings.perl.org/ one of theproblems with cpan is there's just _so_ _much_ _stuff_ there. it can be hard to decide which one of a dozen different modules to use. cpanratings helps with this problem
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    http://cpanratings.perl.org/ you can seeindividual reviews, which version they're reviewing, and so on. one downside - because ratings are about a particular version, may not reflect current module state
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    https://metacpan.org/ MetaCPAN links toreviews as well as showing an average review score
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    http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/ we also haveCPANTS - automated testing of some best practices around module development
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    http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/ here's what thatlooks like for a particular module. super useful if you're not sure you're doing things the "right" way
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    http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/author/GENEHACK can also seemodules by author, which can be useful when trying to decide whether to use somebody's code
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    % cpanm Git::Wrapper -->Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045
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    % cpanm Git::Wrapper -->Working on Git::Wrapper Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GENEHACK/Git-Wrapper-0.045.tar.gz ... OK Configuring Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Building and testing Git-Wrapper-0.045 ... OK Successfully installed Git-Wrapper-0.045
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    speaking of Perlcommunity… finally, you really should consider becoming more actively involved with the perl community, if you're working with (or even just playing with) perl
  • 123.
    finally, you reallyshould consider becoming more actively involved with the perl community, if you're working with (or even just playing with) perl
  • 124.
    Conferences & Workshops & Mongers (ohmy.) big conferences: YAPC, once a year (or so), in North America, Europe, Asia. Sometimes Brazil, Russia too workshops: smaller, regional. Pittsburgh, DC-Baltimore, Orlando perl mongers groups: like MasterCard, we *errywhere* you want to be
  • 125.
    http://www.pm.org/groups/north_america.html finally, you reallyshould consider becoming more actively involved with the perl community, if you're working with (or even just playing with) perl, there's probably a local perl mongers group near you
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    http://perlweekly.com/ finally, let megive a big shout out to perl weekly, which is a once a week email newsletter and website aggregating perl related news from all over the web if you're only going to pay attention to one perl thing, perl weekly is your best choice! sign up at perlweekly.com
  • 129.
    thanks! thanks to theorganizers for accepting my talk, thanks to all of you for attending and participating ...
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    thanks to myemployer for giving me the time to write this talk and sending me here to deliver it
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