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Issue #513 - 2021-05-24 - Perl 5.34.0 is now available!
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Hi there! I am disappointed. Mohammad does not like round numbers. He was editing both the 500th edition and the 512th edition and nothing. He did not even blink an eye. I hope he will not forget to celebrate the 1024 edition. On another note, perl 5.34.0 was released. I am not saying it is easy, but I really enjoy the live pair programming sessions with Mark Gardner, Upasana Shukla, Juan J. Merelo, Erik Hulsmann, Ferenc Erki, Thomas Klausner, Ynon Perek people whom I know from the Perl community and also Shai Berger, Ivett Ördög, Rachel Normand, Tally Barak, and Laia Asensio López, people I know from other places. One day you might also want to find a partner and try it. It is nice to work with other people who think differently from you. Enjoy your week Gabor Szabo |
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Is this just a clickbait subject line, or is this saying that 'Some people wanted to change Perl to be something not-Perl, but now the language is saved from those people.'? | 
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CPAN
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by David Cantrell (DCANTRELL) Apparently two weeks ago I confused CPANdeps with another of David's ex-projects. cpXXXan was the one that provided older versions of modules for older perls. CPANdeps shows a tree of a module's dependencies, along with test results for your chosen version of perl. The dependency analysis part of that is available on the command line via the `cpandeps` script (distributed with CPAN::FindDependencies) and MetaCPAN shows the first level of dependencies. Since then David found someone to take over maintenance of CPANdeps anyway. | 
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Articles
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by Volker Kroll A detailed example of taking a big commit and breaking it up into small steps that make the whole process easier to follow. |
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by Mark Gardner Is that all? Do you know other things Mark should list on his blog? Comment on his blog post. | 
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by Thibault Duponchelle I admit, just a few weeks ago I wrote a partially functioning tool for myself to download and unzip a CPAN distribution. It was fun, but I should have looked for an already existing solution. | 
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave is scrobbling using Last.FM. For those who don't know, 'scrobbling' is the act of logging what you're listening to using an external service so that, over time, you build up an accurate picture of who you listen to. | 
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Perl Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out of your comfort zone. You can even win prize money of a $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during that month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome the new week with couple of fun tasks "Next Palindrome Number" and "Higher Integer Set Bits". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read FAQ page. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Represent Integer" and "Recreate Binary Tree" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Aaron Smith Aaron took pains to display the tree like structure. Loved it. Keep it up the great work. |
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by Abigail Abigail's style of expanding the task is much appreciated. There is plenty to learn from his task analysis. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Abigail Abigail is once again at his best. Please check it out. |
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by Adam Russell Adam's use of pack()/unpack() is really interesting. There is always something new to learn. Thanks for sharing. | 
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by Arne Sommer I am big fan of Arne for his creative blog titles. He is simply the best. This week, we got bonus Perl solutions as well. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Cheok-Yin Fung Cheok always surprises me with something new and this week also we got two very clever solutions. Keep it up. |
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by Christian Jaeger Welcome Christian and thanks for introducing FunctionalPerl. |
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by Colin Crain I loved his analysis of the Represent Integer task. I wonder sometimes, how did I miss it myself. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio shared the mathematical expression for the task. Lot to learn from his work. Keep up the great work. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I have a high regard for those who present the tree like structure. Although it is not part of the task, some did it on their own. Thank you. |
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by James Smith James's code presentation is always the best. It makes reading the code so simple. Also with the detailed task analysis is very handy as well. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis' attempt to improve the performance of the Represent Integer task is commendable. Keep it up. |
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by Luca Ferrari Luca shared the real power of Raku. I loved his solution to the Recreate Binary Tree task specially. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger's optimisation of the Represent Integer the is the highlight of this blog post for me. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Simon Green Simon's choice of data format for representing a binary tree is very smart. I liked the story behind it too. |
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