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Issue #496 - 2021-01-25 - Statocles vs Hugo
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Hi there I think it is unfair to compare the two, but I couldn't stop myself. Let me make this crystal clear, I am talking about two static site builder. Statocles written in Perl and Hugo written in Go. Why am I even talking about Hugo in the Perl weekly newsletter? Well, to me it doesn't matter whether it is Perl or any other language. What matters is which one gets the job done quickly. I hear it is matter of personal choice as well. I was first introduced to Hugo when I wrote my first article for Perl.com in 2018. If I am not mistaken, they still use Hugo. I was so impressed with Hugo that I used it to build The Weekly Challenge website. During the peak of my CPAN contributions, I came to know about Statocles. I loved it but never got the opportunity to use it. However I did become one of the contributors to the project. My contribution wasn't ground-breaking, but I feel proud to see my name in the list of contributors. All credit goes to Doug Bell for the coolest tool. For those who don't know him, he leads the team running and managing the CPAN Testers since Barbie took a break. Last week, I saw a new website perl.kiwi become the talk of the town. It is built using Statocles as the idea behind the website is to promote Perl. I am going to keep an eye out for fun stuff related to Perl. I loved the domain name. Congratulations Lance Wicks. Talking about promoting Perl, Sawyer shared the details of the 3rd Perl Steering Council meeting. There was another big annoucement by Sawyer with regard to the release date of Perl v5.34. We should all be thankful to the PSC members for their time and efforts. Last time I forgot to mention about the Pull Request Club 2020 Report by Kivanc Yazan. Kudos to Kivanc for running the club for 2 years now. Keep it up. You are doing a great service to the Perl community. Last but not the least, please don't forget to watch the weekly show, "Perl Town Hall" by Will Braswell on Facebook. It doesn't suit my timezone but I do watch it the recordings later. Enjoy the rest of the newsletter Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Statistics
In this section we show some collected stats. Let's figure out which numbers could be interesting. The scripts are in the bin directory of the Perl Weekly Git repository.
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Last week there were a total of 218 uploads to CPAN of 164 distinct distributions by 95 different authors. Number of distributions with link to VCS: 135. Number of distros with CI: 73. Number of distros with bugtracker: 117. |
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Number of posts last week: BPO: 6; DevTo: 7; Perl.com: 0; PerlAcademy: 1; PerlHacks: 0; PerlMaven: 1; Reddit: 18; TPF: 3; |
Announcements
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Articles
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by Mark Gardner Mark talking about the most difficult subject. Debugging web app is the most difficult task of any dev. | 
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by Toby Inkster (TOBYINK) Toby sharing his Perl skill to automate mood lighting. Worth reading for fun. |
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by Jesse Shy Jesse brought up a good old topic and shares his views with us. |
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by Kivanc Yazan (KYZN) Please checkout Kivanc's annual report for the year 2020. Great work Kivanc, keep it up. | 
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Discussion
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by Martin McGrath Martin picked up a hot topic to discuss. Very useful if you have published module to CPAN. |
Grants
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Perl Weekly Challenge
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks - "Caesar Cipher" and "Binary Substrings". 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 "Reverse Words" and "Edit Distance" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Aaron Smith Aaron promoting Raku and encouraging following the official documentation. A short and sweet solutions. |
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by Abigail Abigail showing off the power of one-liners. Incredible. |
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by Abigail Abigail presenting the mathematical side of the task "Edit Distance". Must Read. |
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by Adam Russell Adam showing Perl a adaptation of a Haskell implementation deaing with the "Edit Distance" task. An interesting approach. | 
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by Arne Sommer I love it when Arne does both Perl and Raku together. You get to see the similarities. Must Read. |
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by Colin Crain Colin introducing the Wagner-Fisher algorithm, which is new to me. Need to revisit. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Dave presenting Levenshtein Distance solution in a unique way. Highly Recommended. | 
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by Kang-min Liu Kang-min exploring Dynamic Programing to deal with the Levenshtein distance. Must Read. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio using the power of regex to solve the "Reverse Words" task. Nice and easy to follow. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Straight implementation of pseudocode from Wikipedia. No fancy stuff. A pure Perl solution. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent is teaching us the decorator pattern in Perl this week. You don't want to miss this. |
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by Joan Mimosinnet Joan showing an OO solution to the "Edit Distance" task. Highly Recommended. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger's blog post is one place where we get to explore more than just Perl solutions. Must Read. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis seems to follow the philosophy "Don't re-invent the wheel". I highly recommend the use of CPAN as much as possible. |
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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Weekly collections
The corner of Flavio Poletti
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Never heard of it before, thanks to Flavio, I learnt something new today. |
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The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) During the last week I made some nice progress recording the Testing in Perl course. So if you are a Perl developer who wants to make sure their code works well, this course can help you learn all the tools you need. |
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