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Issue #429 - 2019-10-14 - Name and identity
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Hi there! It feels strange writing this from the stage of the Perl weekly newsletter, but I am happy with the renaming of Perl 6 to something unrelated to Perl. It will hopefully give a better chance for it to shine. Some of the Perl programmers will still blame Perl 6 (or Raku) for the fact that less people use Perl today, but hopefully the name change will reduce this type of noise. This will give a better opportunity to the Perl 6 / Raku developers to enjoy the fruits of their labor. For a long time I was hoping for the simple solution explained by Andrew Shitov, but I am afraid some people in the Perl community would not allow that. At least not socially. So as much as it hurts, I think separating from Perl is in the best interest of Perl 6 / Raku. Enjoy your week! ps. I might need to add a subtitle to the newsletter: "covering Perl, Raku, and everything related." Gabor Szabo |
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October 19, 2019. David Game College, 31 Jewry St, London EC3N 2ET |
Articles
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by John Scoles (BYTEROCK) He is back! After a very long break John has restarted his almost daily blog posts. This is the first episode. You can find the rest in the list of posts in October. See below! |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Review of last week challenge. There are plenty of great solutions. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Please check out the short interview with the "Perl Weekly Challenge - 028" winner Andrezgz. |
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by Arne Sommer As always Perl6 doesn't need lots of coding. Checkout the Perl6 magic. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) I really enjoyed how solved the calling C function from perl script task. So simple and easy to follow. | 
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by E. Choroba (CHOROBA) E. Choroba always surprised me with his cjoice CPAN module. This time he used Syntax::Contruct. Checkout what he is doing with it. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent blog is something you can't afford to miss. You must checkout. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger introduced FFI::Raw to show how it can be used to call C function. Must Read. |
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by Yet Ebreo Yet Ebreo showed how Fibonacci series is generated using C and called from Perl script. |
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by Yet Ebreo Yet Ebreo blog is very well inline documented blog. |
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) There are a lot of good points in this post, but Ovid also writes: "Though support for a rename was overwhelming, there was a loud minority who objected", but he shows no evidence of this. For all I know there were 8 billion people who silently supported the name change and 20 'loudmouthes' who were actually involved in the project who opposed it. I don't know. It just seems like bending the truth. It is definitely trumping on the people who 'lost' the argument. Then giving them a bone by writing: "But through it all, one thing remained clear: everyone meant well.". And all this is coming from a well-respected member of the Perl community. | 
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