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Day one here at the SPW coming home again the Florian in Olten CH.
We started the day with Liz Mattijen debunking myths found on the inter-web about Perl 6, Raku, Cammila ah what-ever they are calling it these days.

Liz was very passionate about Perl6 and it was a little sad to hear her story the state of Perl 5 and Perl 6 but we can always hope.

I was up next and was a little flustered to go up next to one of the legends but I think my talk on the history of routes and my personal style of writing route when ok, at least the crowd laughed at the parts I though where funny.

After lunch Jmerelo (Juan Julian Melelo-Guervous) gave a very interesting talk on the many advances in programming since the object-rented programming hay-day of the gay 90s. He went though a number of languages from Scala to F# showing some of their most interesting post-OO features. In the end he showed that Perl6 (Raku) does all of them and sometimes much better.

I had a little work emergency, of course, just as the next talk started so I unfortunately missed out Roman Baume talk on couchDB. Oh well Elixir just have to wait till I buy the book.

The next talk was by Fritz Zaucker and he gave what for me was the fist example of a Perl6 web app in production. I was neat to see how some of the very modern features of Perl6 can be used in a real world environment. The best part is how they leveraged Perl6 grammars to develop a sub language that the non developer end users could use to create the content and functionality on their own.

We ended the day with a few lighting talks the best of which was a brief history of perl marketing by Wendy Van Dijk

Then a nice supper and few too many wiskeys from Wendy's cellars and to bed