One of the keynotes of YAPC::EU 2015. The Perl community and culture shaped fundamentally the developer I am today. In this talk I go through some of the unique or strong characteristics of Perl that influenced me the most.

1. Homage to Perl
YAPC::EU 2015

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9. Dropping out
from high school

14. Pragmatism

15. Scalars

16. It is OK to break
symmetry

20. Context

21. Design for the
common case

22. Client code first

23. Think with your editor,
not a blackboard

24. USENET

27. There are many ways
to help in an open
source project

28. IRC Spider Sense

29. How much does the
person know?

30. XY questions

31. IRC is the best
debugging school

32. Iain Truskett

33. Documentation

34. perldoc perl

35. perldoc Moose

37. Empathy

39. Testing

40. CPAN

41. Crazy creativity

42. Acme::

43. JAPHs

44. Perl Golf

47. Coprimality test
Number of divisors
Fraction reduction
Integer square root
Euler’s φ
Square-free test
…

48. fxn/math-with-
regexps

49. Perl Poetry

52. To Larry

53. To the Perl
community

54. Thank You
Very Much