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'''Yet Another Perl Conference''' ('''YAPC'''), from 2016–2019 called '''The Perl Conference''' ('''TPC'''), from 2020 on the '''The Perl and Raku Conference''', is a series of conferences discussing the [[Perl]] [[programming language]], usually organized under the auspices of [[The Perl Foundation]] and [[Yet Another Society]], a "non-profit corporation for the advancement of collaborative efforts in computer and information sciences". The name is an homage to [[yacc]], "[[Yet Another]] Compiler Compiler".

The first YAPC was held at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], [[United States|USA]]US on June 24 and June 25, 1999. Organizer [[Kevin Lenzo]] assembled 31 different speakers into the schedule on various Perl-related topics. The idea of a low-cost Perl conference quickly spread with a [[Europe]]an version of YAPC established in 2000, [[Israel]] in 2003, [[Australia]] in 2004, [[Asia]] and [[Brazil]] in 2005, and [[Russia]] in 2008. The only continents never to have hosted a YAPC are [[Africa]] and [[Antarctica]].

In 2016, YAPC rebranded itself as '''The Perl Conference''', which is the former name of [[O'Reilly Open Source Convention|OSCON]] (OSCON). As of 2020, it is now calling itself '''The Perl and Raku Conference''' to reflect the renaming of Perl 6 to [[Raku (programming language)|Raku]].

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