Perl 5.14 for Pragmatists

Every new release of Perl comes with a big list of changes, plenty of which seem carefully worded to make the average Perl programmer wonder, “Wait, do I care about this? What the heck is the global interpreter phase?” Perl 5.14 is chocked full of great improvements will actually be useful in day to day programming, and this talk focuses on those, leaving the weird esoterica for another day.