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Issue #471 - 2020-08-03 - $1 / week
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
This edition was made possible by the supporters of our cause.
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Hi there! It is hard to believe, but the Perl Weekly is 9 years old! This gives me an even better opportunity to ask what I planned to ask anyway: Is it worth it? Is it worth your time? Is it worth our time? Is it worth it enough to even pay $1 / week for it? We are not going to charge for it, but I wonder if you think it is worth enough for you to donate $1 a week to us just to have this newsletter. Even if you say: "I don't read it but I think it is important for the Perl community to have it." If you think so, and you can afford it, then head over to the Patreon account of Mohammad or myself (Gabor) and support us! You can give $2/month to each one of us, or you can give $4/month to Mohammad because he also does the PWC, does not really matter. The important is that you show that you value our work with a small monthly support. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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Statistics
This is a new section of some data we collect with scripts. Let's figure out what numbers could be interesting. The script(s) are in the Git repository of the Perl Weekly.
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Last week there were a total of 199 uploads to CPAN of 156 distinct distributions by 85 different authors. |
Articles
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by Dave Rolsky (DROLSKY) The Module-AutoLoad distribution has been found to contain malicious code in its test suite. Specifically, it attempts to load and execute Perl code from a remote server during the test suite. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) A possible implementation that is compatible in interface but only offers a subset of the functionalities. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Iterative counterparts of recursive function are not always more efficient. |
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Discussion
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Isn't this an unnecessary break of compatibility, which will make it inevitable that there will always be two versions of Perl on every Unix-like system? |
Testing
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Open Source
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) This video was already created by the inspiration and question of one of my Patreon supporters. So even if you don't have time to contribute to Meta::CPAN now, you could support me on Patreon and then I might be able to create a video in response to a question you ask me! |
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Personal accomplishments
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) After 7 month of keeping them to myself, here is a new monthly report. It took time writing it, but it was actually fun. |
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CPAN
The Perl Foundation
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TPF Board members meet every month and here are the minutes from the July 2020 meeting. |
Grants
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Redesign the raku/zef ecosystem to be robust and to make easier the distribution submission for the raku ecosystem. |
Games
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Olivier Valuet would like to invited you to join him on CodInGame, so he won't be the sole Perl hacker on the platform. (Also, give him XP by signing up via his link!) |
Perl 5
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by Leon Timmermans (LEONT) Thought provoking. Though I think Perl 5 has not been as backward compatible as many people like to think. I've seen quite a few upgrades breaking things. I like some of the comments: I like the point preaction makes between certainity and uncertainty. I also like the poins of Dean make about democracy or lack thereof. There are even more comments on the Reddit thread. | 
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Perl Weekly Challenge
The Perl Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out from your comfort-zone. You can even win the prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month among all the contributors of the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Don't miss the fun and try new challenges every week. For more information, please read FAQ page. |
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by Arne Sommer Find out the difference between roll and pick in Raku, Thanks Arne for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Colin Crain Colin shared the power of grep and map. Interesting Take. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Jaldhar show how he reused the sub pick() he created for earlier task and that it is identical to the pick() of Raku. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent showing us the power of gather in Raku. |
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by Luca Ferrari Olivia, the pet cat in the house of Luca has now become official mascot for Perl Weekly Challenge. Hope and pray she gets well soon. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger used the shuffle and splice to generate random elements, interesting approach. |
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by Walt Mankowski Walt shared his first blog for Perl Weekly Challenge. I hope it is not the last. |
Perl Tutorial
A section for newbies and for people who need some refreshing of their Perl knowledge. If you have questions or suggestions about the articles, let me know and I'll try to make the necessary changes. The included articles are from the Perl Maven Tutorial and are part of the Perl Maven eBook.
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Rakudo
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by JJ Merelo (JMERELO) On August 1st, it was 20 years ago that the first Perl 6 RFC was published. To celebrate that, JJ Merelo is organizing a special blog series of 20 articles, each covering an RFC |
Other
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) I've updated the list of people who support me via Patreon with the names of all the people who agreed to be in the public. Some of them even told me why are they supporting me. |
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Events
The Meeting Page and the Perl Weekly Calendar
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