Welcome to Moscow.pm on March 5

On March 5, we invite everyone to the next Perl Mongers meeting. For the past eight years, Perl programmers have been gathering for such meetings, sharing their experiences with all like-minded people. The upcoming event program focuses exclusively on Perl 6. It is so different from previous versions that it is already considered as an independent programming language. Moreover, many experts believe that Perl 6 will be a real milestone in the development of programming. The history of its development began in 2000, when Larry Wall began work on specifications. Despite the fact that Perl 6 has not yet been officially released, everyone can already find compatible compilers and virtual machines on the network. Under the cut you are waiting for descriptions of reports and materials from the last meeting.

Two speakers will speak at the meeting. Each of them will consider Perl 6 from its own point of view. These reports can be recommended not only to Perl-programmers, but also to developers in Python, Go, Ruby and other languages, since Perl 6 contains the best paradigms of modern software development.

Andrei Shitov , organizer of Perl conferences. The topic of the report is “Perl 6 2.0”.
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I have been following the development of Perl 6 almost from the beginning. After a few years, interest waned, but in February of this year, Larry Wall announced that Perl 6 would finally be officially ready by the end of 2015. When I refreshed my knowledge, the current status of the version was a discovery for me! In the report, I will talk about what you can already use in Perl 6, and how to prepare yourself for a new language, even if you abandoned programming.

Alexey Kapranov , Yandex. The topic of the report is “Perl 6 Today: 8 Years Later”.

Remember the pugs? In 2007, at the first Russian Perl conference, I talked about the current state of Perl 6. Then it seemed that everything would be ready soon, and there was just a little more to wait. Thanks to Larry speaking at FOSDEM a month ago, we had this feeling again. I’ll tell you what Perl 6 can do today compared to 2007.

Beginning of the meeting at 19.30.
Mail.Ru Group office address: Leningradsky Prospekt 39, Building 79 (m. Airport).
Do not forget to register and be sure to bring your passport or driver's license.

Materials of the last meeting:

Natalya Savenkova, former CTO of the SHOP2YOU.RU project, Working with .xls, .xlsx and .rtf documents .



Ivan Sokolov, teamlead REG.RU, FastQueue - as we did turn on Perl and Redis .



Elena Shishkina, lead programmer of the Money Mail.Ru project, Plasticine code: how to stop coding and start living .