Following my 2010 post, I thought I should register some of the great things that happened in the Perl programming world in 2011. Only this time instead of turning it into a timeline, I'm going to place things in topics so you can just concentrate on what really matters :) Also, I'm only going to write about Perl 5. If you're looking for a Perl 6 retrospective, Moritz Lenz already did a very nice