The ephemeral miniconf - Once Upon Perl Acronyms

Once upon a time, a guy named Larry Wall created a language called Perl. He became the BDFL of this PL which values are TIMTOWTDI, DWIM, POLA and as all UNIXes: KISS and DOTADIW. Perl enhances some key concepts of AWK, SED or GREP and even provides ACK and leads industry standard REGEX (PCRE). PPL started to ❤️ Perl, meeting in PM groups and calling themself JAPH. Eventually, big-sized meetings appeared like YAPC, TPC and TPRCIC (or chartreuse-sized ones like PTS). There were also associations like TPF or EPO and individuals like YOU and ME. FYI in 2021, I decided to organize TEM because hey, YOLO! Technically speaking, you can say Perl or perl but not PERL nor the horrific PEARL... 😱 And if you don't know, go on IRC and ask PURL! 🤖 People say "Only perl can parse Perl" but there is PPI, PPR and PLS. Interfacing w/ native extensions is easy with FFI, XS, SWIG or WASM (and even easier with NCI in Raku). Perl lovers contribute to the CPAN w/ ❤️ via PAUSE so Perl users can use CPANP, CPANM or CPM to DRY. You can browse MetaCPAN for DBI, EUMM, MB, LWP or PDL or even some idiot ACME. Each DIST contains a whole lot of DOC in a format named POD and even a dedicated RT Q. If you're in trouble, have a look at HOP or PBP. IMHO it is a good PPT, but maybe a bit WTF... IDK 🤷 THX for attending and FWIW here is a well deserved GIF. TY