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=head3 Section 1.25.2: History Of RPerl

The RPerl project officially began as a New Year's Resolution on January 1st, 2013.  Following the grand tradition of Perl creator I<"Saint" Larry Wall>, RPerl version releases are often timed to coincide with major holidays.

After 1 year of work, RPerl v1.0beta1 was released on New Year's Day 2014, eventually followed by RPerl v1.0beta2 on Christmas 2014.

The much-anticipated RPerl v1.0 full release was made on US Independence Day 2015, and RPerl v1.2 came on Halloween 2015.

RPerl v1.3 was released on Thanksgiving 2015, followed by RPerl v1.4 on Christmas 2015, and so forth.

RPerl v1.0 was funded through a Kickstarter campaign, then RPerl v1.2 and v1.3 were funded through a second Kickstarter campaign.  Work on the first 6 chapters of this book was funded, in part, by grants from The Perl Foundation.

RPerl v2.0 was released on US Independence Day 2016, exactly 1 year after v1.0 was released, in order to establish a regular annual release cycle.

=head3 Section 1.25.3: Performance Of RPerl

The question of I<"How fast is RPerl?"> does not have one simple answer; instead there are several factors and configuration modes to be taken into consideration.  A relatively detailed description of the performance and modes may be found at the fol...

L<http://rperl.org/performance_benchmarks.html>

The most condensed answer is that I<"RPerl is really fast.">  Utilizing RPerl's fastest execution modes, we see performance very close to the highly-optimized I<C++> programming language, which means RPerl is now among the short list of "world's fast...

=head3 Section 1.25.4: The Low-Magic Perl Commandments

The high-magic features of Perl are primarily responsible for the slow speed at which Perl executes general-purpose computations.  The I<"R"> in RPerl stands for I<"Restricted">, in that we restrict ourselves to only use the low-magic features of Per...

The definitive list of do's and do-not's for high-magic vs low-magic Perl programming is called I<The Low Magic Perl Commandments> (LMPC).  There are 64 total commandments split into 5 groups of Ideals, Magic, Data, Operations, and Object-Orientation...

L<http://rperl.org/the_low_magic_perl_commandments.html>

=for text The LMPC draw inspiration from, and (wherever possible) work together with Damian Conway's B<Perl Best Practices> and Jeffrey Thalhammer's Perl::Critic software.

=for html <p>The LMPC draw inspiration from, and (wherever possible) work together with Damian Conway's <u><b>Perl Best Practices</b></u> and Jeffrey Thalhammer's Perl::Critic software.</p>

L<http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001735.do>

L<http://search.cpan.org/~thaljef/Perl-Critic/lib/Perl/Critic/PolicySummary.pod>

=head3 Section 1.25.5: Perlism & The Book Of RPerl

I<Perlism> is the computer religion dedicated to the use, promotion, and development of the Perl family of programming languages.  (Not to be confused with a spiritual religion such as Christianity, a computer religion such as Perlism is an independe...

=for text A I<Perlite> is an adherent to the Perlism religion.  Perlism has a revered founder, Saint Larry (himself a devout Christian); a prophet, I<The Voice In The Wilderness> (Will); a monastery and shrine, I<Perl Monks>; commandments, The LMPC; ...

=for html <p>A <i>Perlite</i> is an adherent to the Perlism religion.  Perlism has a revered founder, Saint Larry (himself a devout Christian); a prophet, <i>The Voice In The Wilderness</i> (Will); a monastary and shrine, <i>Perl Monks</i>; commandme...

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The Book is a description of events surrounding the creation of RPerl and the future of the Internet.  It is intended to both educate and entertain.

L<http://rperl.org/the_book_of_rperl.html>

=head3 Section 1.25.6: Fun With Proverbs & Catch Phrases & Acronyms

St. Larry has given us short and powerful proverbs, some of which are meant to have a purposefully tongue-in-cheek or sarcastic interpretation.

Will has provided a corollary to each of St. Larry's official proverbs.

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