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Josette Garcia writes:
It is with some apprehension that I went to Lisbon for YAPC::EU::2009. I kept hearing that Perl is too old and that it is now superceded by better, more funky languages. Rest assured Perl is still here and the Perl community is well aware of the problems and is now fighting back. Over 300 attendees from all over Europe and further afield, gathered in sunny Lisbon to hear the masters of Perl and Larry Wall’s keynote.
O’Reilly was well represented with so many authors giving a talk or just attending the conference:
- Larry Wall
- Damian Conway
- Dave Cross
- brian d foy
- Curtis Poe
- Andrew Ford
- Philip Bruhat, this year's White Camel Award winner with Tim Bunce and Michael Schwern.
(Philip translated some of our books in French.)
I was very sorry that Chromatic had to cancel.
The conference was divided into 4 tracks:
- Corporate
- Everyday
- Beginning
- Workshops
Larry Wall on Perl 6 – “Next year, we will be launching a solid working subset of Perl 6 which will be fully supported. This of course will not be the final version of Perl 6 as we all know that open source software is evolving every day.”
Lots of thanks to the Portuguese team: Alberto, Joanna, Jose for putting such a great conference together.
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