All I want for Christmas....

A couple of years ago the Perl Packrats, who were originally responsible for creating PAUSE and CPAN, tossed a few ideas around for "The 12 days of Perl Christmas" and "A Christmas Camel". When I was doing the research for the Perl history I actually found something called 'A Christmas Camel' but was disappointed when Larry informed me it wasn't a Dickensian Tale of Perl. I remembered this today and fortunately I kept an archive of these email from Jeff Okamoto, Grep and myself so I thought I'd share a slightly updated version of "The 12 Days of Perl Christmas";

• On the 12th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me 12 "Thanks Applied!" email.
• On the 11th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 11 P5 Porters porting.
• On the 10th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 10 pedants picking.
• On the 9th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 9 warnings about Locale.
• On the 8th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 8 happy hackers.
• On the 7th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 7 files flocking.
• On the 6th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 6 years of CPAN.
• On the 5th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 5 Subroutines!
• On the 4th day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 4 new platforms
• On the 3rd day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 3 pragmas
• On the 2nd day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 2 Haiku
• On the 1st day of Christmas my pumpking gave to me, 1 5.8 release and no more weekends hacking perl! :)