The Perl and Raku Conference 2024 in Las Vegas

Time to start thinking in Raku!
Have you:
* Written nested loops?
* Summed a list, or created a running total?
* Compared elements of one array to another array, or to the same array?
Raku's meta-operators do these (and much more) so concisely that it can change your thinking.
Come let me "wow" youYou are likely doing reduction, production, Cartesian cross-product, combinations, and zipping, even if you don't think in those terms.
In Raku, we have concise ways to express these tasks!

Yay!

...with operators so tight that they can change the way you think about your problem-solving!

Hooray! Large cheer!

...and often with two or three hard-to-distinguish ways to do it!

Woohoo!
Wait, what???

TIMTOWTDI, come find out when to use which way!

Presenting hyper-operators and meta-operators in a way that will move us from typical reactions of "Oh! Cool!" to actual adoption in everyday coding, by focusing on spotting the use-cases. For example, "When you see FOO, think BAR", where FOO might be nested loops walking the full span of the same array twice, and BAR would be the `X` operator.
Audience: Intermediate["Raku"]

Raku is a multiparadigmatic language. It supports out of the box functional, procedural, declarative, and object-oriented programming. But to date, there is no way to work with formal logic like one can in Prolog or other logical programming languages. Learn how this is changing!Raku does not support logical programming out of the box. Logic programming is also fairly distinct in how it works relative to other languages. Is there a way to marry Raku's extensive support for other paradigms with the logical one? This talk explores one approach and proposes a syntax that introduces a new twigil `$-foo` along with a naïve solver to begin exploration in the fascinating world of logical programming.Audience: Intermediate["Raku", "Polyglot"]

Raku has lots of different ways to work with logic. From short circuits to junctions and the word logic operators. Learn how they all work and play together.This talk with discuss the various types of logic that can be handled in Raku. Beginning with simple true/false, it will progress towards short circuit operators like `&&` or `||`, and then move to the alpha/word variants `and` and `or` to describe how they work differently. The talk will also touch on junctions (create with `&`, `all`, `|`, `any`, etc.) to round off the treatment of the topic.Audience: Beginner["Raku", "Beginner Talk", "Logic"]

People enjoyed last year's closures talks. This one goes further into applying closures with basic from Perl5 & extensions in Raku.Perl has "First Class" subs, but too few people realize what and how useful they are in both general and OO code. Last year we looked at some basic definitions, this talk looks at ways to apply closures in Perl5 & Raku for fun and profit for writing re-usable or more easily configurable code.Audience: Intermediate[]

The "testing culture" in Raku is an important part of both the language and its culture. This talks looks at some basics of writing tests in Raku using the command line tools and language features.This was given a few years ago, since then details of Raku have changed to look a bit more Raku-ish. This would be an updated talk including newer language features & test modules. Audience: All["Perl6 Testing"]