Perl Weekly
Issue #327 - 2017-10-30 - The Quest for a 100-Year Programming Language
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Hi there!
plenty of interesting stufff this week:
an interview with Larry Wall, Call For Participation for the German Perl Worksop, and Call For Cakes at the London Perl Workshop.
I am also running a new survey. This time about Continuous Integration. Fill it out!
Enjoy your week!
Gabor Szabo
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Interview
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Articles
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by Paul Evans (PEVANS)
A very detailed explanation on how to use Devel::MAT to find a memory leak in Mojo::Redis2. If the terminology in the article is unfamiliar, don't worry in the first part of the series Paul explained those.
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by David Farrell (DFARRELL)
'Unusual traffic from your computer network' when using Samsung Galaxy S8. But what is it?
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Code
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by Andrew Solomon (ILLY)
Remember that 'x' is different to '*' and lists are different to arrays,
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CPAN
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB)
That will free up space on the CPAN server and on the hundreds of mirrors while the old versions will live forever on BackPAN.
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Grants
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Perl 6
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by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)
In case you were following the development of Rakudo, the most advanced implementation of Perl 6, you know they used an unusually-named main development branch called 'nom'. That was now switched to 'master' to align with the default expectation.
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by Zoffix Znet (ZOFFIX)
It is still more than a month away, but it is time to start working on the articles to continue the tradition started in 2009.
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We haven't had a thread about renaming Perl 6 for quite some time. Here are the reactions at Reddit Perl 6 and Reddit Perl
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by Elizabeth Mattijsen (ELIZABETH)
The usual set of beauty and fun!
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Surveys
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The results of the survey from last week.
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Weekly collections
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Event reports
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Events
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by Lena Leanne Hand
The Perl Conference Organizing Committee for the 2018 NEEDS your help!
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Between 4-6 April 2017 in Bergisch Gladbach, 15 km from Cologne/Köln.
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Ever find yourself wishing you could see meaningful impact on users from your work? Trapped in a company with long release cycles and dubious release dates? Wish your ideas for product improvement didn’t keep disappearing in to the Project Manager’s backlog?
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Large, dynamic Perl team in Canary Wharf looking for mid-level and senior developers. Run by a Perl-loving CTO in beautiful offices with a great view over Canary Wharf, the company manages one legacy Perl codebase and a whole bunch of very new, very shiny, and very modern codebases that power the market-leading solution in their particular area. Free breakfast, too, for some values of breakfast.
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Do you have some great Perl war stories? Can you help guide and grow the experience of junior Perl developers? Never get tired of explaining what
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