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Issue #182 - 2015-01-19 - The Perl 6 buzz
latest | archive | edited by Neil Bowers
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Hi, There's definitely a growing buzz around Perl 6, as we get closer to Larry's talk at FOSDEM on 1st Feb, with a great-looking Perl (5 and 6) line-up the day before. 357 people have signed up for the CPAN pull request challenge. Thank you to all the CPAN authors who are being so helpful and supportive towards the PR crew, many of whom are working on their first-ever pull request. Editor #3, Neil Neil Bowers |
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Advocacy
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by Tudor Constantin (TCONST) An impassioned support of Perl from Tudor, in response to the Why Perl Didn't Win post from August last year. Tudor explains why Perl works for him. And that's what it comes down to I think: we're all wired differently, and some programming languages match our wiring better than others. YMMV. | 
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CPAN News
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by Miguel Prz (NICEPERL) Miguel Prz (NICEPERL)'s regular lists: Great modules released last week; MetaCPAN weekly report; StackOverflow Perl report. |
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) David picks his favourite new modules from 2014's monthly posts of best new modules. | 
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) A summary of the challenge, how it will work, and information for CPAN authors and participants of the challenge. It's not too late to sign up! |
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Hacking and blogging
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by Buddy Burden (BAREFOOT) A long rumination (this is Buddy, after all) on the #! line in your scripts, doing it portably, and pulling in the right versions of things. |
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by Tina Müller (TINITA) Following on from a comment made in Buddy's article (above), Tina pointed out that a key bug in FindBin was fixed in Perl 5.16, so make sure you're running a recent enough version of FindBin. | 
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) There are lots of different ways to show code samples in a blog post. Dave's current standard is to put the code in a gist, then embed that in the blog post, even if it does require Javascript to be enabled in the reader's browser. What's your preferred approach? | 
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by Thomas Klausner (DOMM) Thomas is trying to shoot at least one photo a day, posting it to his blog and twitter. Here he walks us through the code he's written to automate as much of his process as possible. |
Perl 6
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL) David shows how to use grammars in Perl 6, building one to parse valid module names. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Gabor's Perl 6 odyssey continues, demonstrating working with scalars. I can never remember what REPL stands for, so I googled it (again!) for you: Read-Eval-Print-Loop. It's just an interactive shell. | 
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Conventions
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) brian wonders whether README files are still needed these days, and if so, what should be in them? There are several conventions on CPAN, some dists just have a copy of the main module's doc, others have a summary, and yet others have installation instructions. Add your thoughts in the comments (if you can!). | 
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Details of a new unofficial metadata field for marking a distribution as deprecated. Here 'unofficial' means it's not defined by CPAN::Meta::Spec. |
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Language
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by brian d foy (BDFOY) brian walks through the concepts of lexical and package variables, and then for subs. All this is a lead-in to him presenting a number of problems with named lexical subs (aka 'my subs'). |
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Grants
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by Krasimir Berov (BEROV) Krasimir has put in a grant proposal for $4500 to greatly expand the existing Ado web framework, which is built on top of Mojolicious. If you have any thoughts on this, the Perl Foundation is keen to hear them. | 
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Conferences and Meetups
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The schedule for the Perl track at FOSDEM has been published. It's on Saturday 31st January, and has a cracking lineup of subjects and speakers! Larry's talk on Perl 6 has now been moved to the Sunday at 1pm. |
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Not Perl, but may be of interest
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by Paul Graham A short essay from Paul, with a key insight: "If something that seems like work to other people doesn't seem like work to you, that's something you're well suited for. For example, a lot of programmers I know, including me, actually like debugging. [...] The stranger your tastes seem to other people, the stronger evidence they probably are of what you should do." |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) Gabor looks at some of the most successful sites that have a money-making business based off open content. |
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NASA's 10 development guidelines for safety-critical code, a number of which are widely applicable. Many of the points could be mapped to Perl; e.g. point 10 would become "always use strict and warnings" :-) |
Perl Maven Tutorials
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) The beginning of an old, and slightly noisy recording of the Perl Maven Video course. |
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