The document discusses five things people hate about Perl and provides counterarguments for why Perl is still loved. It addresses common complaints about Perl's syntax, compatibility issues, licensing, and modules while also highlighting Perl's power, flexibility, and ecosystem of reusable code on CPAN.

1. Frozen Perl 2011
brian d foy

2. Five Things
You
Hate

3. Perl
Vogue

4. Perl
Skeptic

6. Why all
the hate?

7. Why all
the love?

8. Five Things
You
Hate

9. Real
Experience

10. Depth
&
Reach

11. Workarounds

12. Sacred
Cows

13. CPAN

14. Licensing

15. Reusability

16. use

17. use Foo::Module;

18. use Foo::Module 1.23;

19. reqire ‘Foo/Bar.pm’;
Foo::Module->import;

20. %INC

21. versions

22. installation

23. private
CPANs

24. Perl 6

25. use Dog
:auth(BDFOY)
:ver(v1.2..v1.4)
;

26. So What?

27. Perl
Skeptic