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@jmac i remember when @rjbs announced at #perlcon #yapc when perl would stop supporting use of control characters in the source code, where some internal variables are today typically written with a carat, e.g. $^X. I was surprised that people wrote such things, but before 5.6.0 apparently you had to do it that way, and of course old timers gonna complain about every change. 1/x

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@swaggboi @silberfuchs @AnarchoDoggo Fun fact 2: #YAPC officially and legally took up the name “The #Perl Conference” (and now “The Perl and Raku Conference”) *years* ago. The Perl and Raku Foundation (previously “The Perl Foundation”) is a “doing business as” name for Yet Another Society, which was formed for organizing past YAPCs.

When (not if!) you donate to @PerlRakuFoundation it goes to YAS.

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@rq @0xabad1dea Throwback to #YAPC 19100: yapc.org/America/previous-year

#Perl was always as “#Y2K compliant” as #C, but very naïve developers would sometimes use ` '19' . (localtime)[5] ` for the current year, thus the jokey name for the final #conference of the previous century.

It’s now called “The Perl and #RakuLang Conference” by @PerlRakuFoundation and will be in #LasVegas next June: tprc.us/tprc-2024-las/. See you there!

#YAPC::Europe and #KohaCon together: The #Perl and #Koha conference in Helsinki, 14-18 August 2023.

We have extended our "Call for papers" until the 14th of May:
We need more Lightning talks, a dozen more Perl talks, and a few more Koha talks,

Submission page: perlkohacon.fi/cft

🙏 Share this info with people you know whom to refer 🤗
(Perl community influencers, you can help us spread the word!)

And all of you, friends, are welcome as attendees too! 🎁

MORE: telegra.ph/Perl-and-Koha-confe

The right mug for working on #Debian's #Lintian — which is written in #Perl.

And yes, I was on the #YAPCE in Munich 2002. It actually was my first Perl conference at all and I just realized that as of now this was over 20 years ago.

And sad that the Perl conferences are no more called #YAPC (or YAPCE if in Europe), but #TPC instead — which is unpronounceable and always reminds me of "Transports Publics du Chablais". (TPG, Transports Publics Genevois, is probably more well-known. 😉)