The Once and Future Perl - Damian Conway - TPRC 2024
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Retroemotions, statistical outliers, lunar excursions, Lorentz contraction, extrasolar planets, atomic clocks, lucky bullets, Greek mythology, political commentary, true crime, artificial intelligence, time travel, neofuturism, The Prince, British SF of the 1970s, dwimmery, poetry, Pride and Prejudice and Profit, English grammar, Perlish syntax, cleverness, satire, a better Turing test, keywords, really smart comments, getting what you mean by saying what you want, object orientation, multiple dispatch, type systems, constraint programming, declarative programming, ancient puzzles, academic literature, linguistic theft, misplacing operators, deconstructing philosophy, the seven laws of "Best", the ABC of choice, closures and continuations, inception, conception, deception, exceptions, the Code of Cthulhu, sorting topologically, the world's most redundant goto, the feature lifecycle, retroexperimentation, fjords, the Pareto Principle, sufficiently hard values of "easy", resurrecting the future, rewriting the past, nominative debugging, casinos foresight vs hindsight, green lights vs red flags, the 46 rules of bad behaviour, the gentle art of novemdecimation, code recycling, the write-right rite-wright, type compatibility, adding value to hash comparisons, the virtues of asymmetry, the slightly less gentle art of septendecimvicesimation, keeping it quantum, implicit disjunctions, explicit conjunctions, complicit injunctions, illicit abjunctions, Kernighan's corollary, getting what you want by saying what you mean, reimagining the past, reinterpreting the present, reinventing the future.
In other words, it’s just your typical Conway keynote.
You’ll laugh. You’ll weep. You’ll be grateful he’s actually 8000 miles away.
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