Perl Weekly
Issue #233 - 2015-01-11 - Putting the '6' in 2016
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This week, a little bit of 2015 retrospectives, and a lot of Perl 6 -- from tutorials, to opinions to what could be its killer feature, to doomsday predictions. Enjoy! ~ `/anick
Yanick Champoux
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Articles
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB)
Neil offers a retrospective of the first year of the CPAN Pull Request Challenge, complete with spiffy graphs and all the trimmings.
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Discussion
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB)
Having more women as keynote speakers for YAPC::EU would be very nifty. Neil, bless his heart, goes beyond the mere wishing and draws a list of peeps who would be awesome candidates.
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by David Golden (DAGOLDEN)
Most people see Perl 5 and 6 as siblings. David goes further, and see them as Cain and Abel. Who happen to be Highlanders. Stuck in an infernal device created by the Jigsaw killer.
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by JT Smith (RIZEN)
A (legitimate) question peeps have about Perl 6 is "what are the differenciators with Perl 5?". Well, asynchronous programming is one. This blog entry argues why this is a big thing.
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Testing
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)
Every troubleshooting session should begin with "is it turned on?". Likewise, each test run should begin with "does it compile?".
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by Alexey Melezhik (MELEZHIK)
A blog entry on blogs.perl.org about how to use 'swat' to monitor the health status of blogs.perl.org. A blogception of some sort, if you will.
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Code
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by Steven Haryanto (SHARYANTO)
String::Flogger, used amongst other things by Log::Dispatchouli, does quite a few clever things to make logging messages more DWIMish.
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Using ActiveState Perl? Here's a refresher on how to install CPAN modules in this environment.
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Perl 6
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Where a Perl6 Grammar is implemented to parse PHP code.
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by Mike Friedman
A short primer on Perl 6. What's the terminology, where to get it, and the first few things to know to get you going.
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by Sterling Hanenkamp
The P6SGI -- the Perl 6 PSGI port -- adventures continue. Here, an async problem is encountered, and a cry for help is made.
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