All things Perl (Interview)

Adam and Jerod talk with Curtis “Ovid” Poe about how he got started with Perl, what Perl is really good at, why he doesn’t expect everyone to love Perl, why Perl doesn’t get no respect, the difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6, and why the Perl community doesn’t like marketing. Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Codeship – If it works with Docker, it works with Codeship Jet. StatusPage – The best way to create a status page for your app or website. Featuring: Curtis Poe – Website, GitHub, X Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X Show Notes: Curtis “Ovid” Poe - Twitter Ovid - GitHub Beginning Perl by Curtis Poe - Amazon.com Larry Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lets talk about Perl! · Issue #87 · thechangelog/ping Learn Perl - learn.perl.org John Siracusa discusses Perl on Hypercritical | Philip Durbin [blogs.perl.org] John Siracusa’s Perl Page COBOL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Booking.com dev blog Curtis Poe (Ovid) - Roles versus Inheritance - YouTube Ovid/Role-Basic Roles without Moose? | Ovid [blogs.perl.org] Is Perl 6 pointless, hopeless or just not done? | David Golden What is happening with Perl 6 and Larry Wall? : perl Role::Tiny - search.cpan.org Moose::Role - search.cpan.org miyagawa/cpanminus Catalyst | Perl MVC web application framework Damian Conway - Perl Best Practices Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!