1. Modern Perl

2. “the world's best and most effective Perl
programmers take full advantage of the
CPAN to make up for missing language
features, to improve their productivity, and
because solving a problem once and for all
and sharing it is the ultimate expression of
laziness, impatience, and hubris”
- chromatic

3. Perl:
The Foundation

4. CPAN:
The Framework

5. 15,000+ Modules

6. 7,000+ Authors

7. ~50 Uploads a Day

8. 201 Mirrors

9. Massive.

10. Standard OO Perl:

11. package Person;
sub new {
my ($class, %args) = @_;
die(„Name is required‟)
if !$args{name};
die(„Name must be a string‟)
if ref $args{name};
return bless %args, $class;
}
sub hello {
my ($self) = @_;
print „Hi, my name is, „ .
$self->{name} . “n”;
}

12. Modern OO Perl:

13. package Person;
use Moose;
use MooseX::Method::Signature;
has „name‟ => (
is => ‟rw‟,
isa => ‟Str‟,
required => 1,
);
method hello {
say „Hi, my name is, „ .
$self->name();
}

14. Modern Perl Code is

15. Concise

16. Robust

17. Maintainable

18. Agile

19. CPAN.

20. Knowing Perl
is not Syntax

21. Know your Tools

22. Know CPAN

23. Be Involved

24. The Short List

25. use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

26. List::Utils
List::MoreUtils
IO::File
IO::Dir
Sub::Name
Sub::Exporter
IPC::Cmd
DateTime

27. DBIx::Class
Rose::DB
CGI::Application
Catalyst
HTTP::Engine
POE

28. Test::More
Test::Exception
Test::Data
Test::Warn

29. Moose
MooseX::Method::Signature
MooseX::Declare
MooseX::MultiMethods
MooseX::Types
MooseX::Getopt
Mouse

30. Perl 5.10

31. More Reading
• http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/
• http://www.enlightenedperl.org/
• http://blog.timbunce.org/
• irc.perl.org #moose, #dbix-class, #catalyst, etc