Dec 18,
Happy Birthday Perl!

... it started in 1987, 37 years ago.

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Happy Birthday, Perl! Today marks 37 years since Larry Wall first released this remarkable language. Over nearly four decades, Perl has grown into a powerful, versatile toolkit for everything from system administration to web development, thriving in a vibrant ecosystem that welcomes innovation.

Far from resting on its laurels, Perl’s community continues to produce exciting projects and updates. Koha, the leading open-source library system, stands as a flagship success story. Built with Perl, Koha’s global adoption in countless libraries demonstrates Perl’s enduring relevance and capacity to deliver mission-critical solutions.

The conversation around Perl remains lively: developers still gather over Advent calendars, producing daily insights and experiments that highlight the language’s flexibility. CPAN—the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network—keeps growing, offering tens of thousands of modules for just about any task.

As we celebrate another year, we salute Perl’s past and present, and look forward to its future expansions. Long live Perl and the projects that carry its banner forward!


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and to give the kudos for one famous author, who helped us to learn Perl through the time together with Larry Wall and brian d foy, there one talk published just today by The Perl and Raku Conference:

Randal Schwartz / Half My Life with Perl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fffJnNTcLog

AND MORE LATEST ARTICLES FROM THE COMMUNITY:

Half My Life with Perl
perladvent.org

Day 19: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
pdl.perl.org

Objective Decisions
blogs.perl.org

Randal Schwartz / Half My Life with Perl
www.youtube.com

Santa will be watching
perladvent.org

Day 18: How to use PDL to draw a Mandelbrot Set
pdl.perl.org

My Python Language Solution to Task 2: Nested Array from The Weekly Challenge 300
dev.to

My Python Language Solution to Task 1: Beautiful Arrangement from The Weekly Challenge 300
dev.to

Annotating Christmas Trees
perladvent.org

Day 17: New operations for Perl Data Language
pdl.perl.org

... mst passed away :*(

https://www.shadowcat.co.uk/2025/07/09/ripples-they-cause-in-the-world

It is worth to denote his remarkable contribution for Perl, and personal acquaintance.

mst! Your name echoes across CPAN and every Perl place. I met you at my first conference, and since then your voice was always loudly distinguishable, heard from far away at every venue. Your talks were different, special, razor-sharp, avant-garde, pedantically tidy, and spiked with grunge humour.

You insisted on better abstractions and called us out, LOUDLY, when we shipped rubbish. Your ‘ES6: Almost an acceptable Perl5?’ trolled and taught; your ‘throw away your code’ mantra keeps us brave enough to refactor.

From DBIx::Class to the Moose metaprotocol, from CPAN mirrors to ‘well volunteered’ drive-bys, the waves you kicked up still power library systems worldwide, including the Koha/Perl stack my team is spreading today.

Your contributions live on: DBIx::Class, Catalyst, Moose MOP, local::lib, Task::Kensho, mstpan, Devel::Declare, B::Hooks, Plack/PSGI evangelism, Shadowcat infrastructure, Reaction UI, SQL::Translator patches, MooseX ecosystem, Devel::REPL, and more!

Rest in code and commits, Shadowcat Matt.

// @nugged:

German Perl Workshop 2026
Berlin. 16-18 March 2026
https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/news

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One of the most active and rather big Perl community gathering nowadays.

Koha people worth to pay attention.


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src by Corion (https://t.me/perlcon/8510):

German Perl Workshop 2026 - in Berlin from 16.-18. March 2026: https://act.yapc.eu/gpw2026/news

And more Perl and Koha events, this year:

this weekend, another very dense Perl community, yapcjapan:

14-15/11 YAPC::Fukuoka 2025

(ref by JF)

Uprising and actively developed Perl product,
really related and meaningful for Perl nowadays:

KohaCon 2025 in New Zealand:
https://2025.kohacon.org

Te Hokinga Mai | Coming Home – Celebrating 25 Years of Koha

17-23 November 2025, Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Join us in celebrating 25 years of open source innovation and community collaboration. Together, we weave the past and future of Koha, strengthening the bonds that make our community unique.

Registration link: https://kohacon25-1.lilregie.com/ (note: only required for in-person attendance, see the announcement)

Conference website: https://2025.kohacon.org/

Conference schedule
View the provisional programme on the KohaCon25 conference website (the schedule is subject to change as the event date approaches).

Conference Days (17–19 November 2025): Presentations, keynotes, and discussions exploring Koha’s journey and future

Day 1: Monday, 17 November 2025
Day 2: Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Day 3: Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Cultural Activities Day (20 November 2025): Opportunities to experience Wellington

Working Together Days (21–23 November 2025): Collaborative workshops, development sprints, and community building

Day 4: Friday, 21 November 2025
Day 5: Saturday, 22 November 2025
Day 6: Sunday, 23 November 2025

KohaCon25 partners and sponsors
KohaCon25 is made possible through the generous support of our partners and sponsors:

Pounamu Sponsors: ByWater Solutions, Catalyst IT, Biteca, Open Fifth
Tūhua Sponsors: Auckland University of Technology (AUT), LMSCloud
Pāua Sponsors: Bob and Irma Birchall, Patu To The Face As a Service

and we glad to remark reviving and now returning to be regular, LPW, "yet another big Perl mongers area":

London Perl & Raku Workshop 2025

29th November 2025,
The Trampery, Old Street, London

http://londonperlworkshop.com/
https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2025/

(ref by JF)

nowadays it's easy to track those which possible remotely, so, Perl (and Koha/Dev people), if you can't be there by person — track channels, talks, give some shout and participate in dicsussions online around!

The Act website is now up and accepting talk submissions.
We still have some slots open!
https://act.yapc.eu/lpw2025