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Issue #508 - 2021-04-19 - Perl Steering Committee (PSC)
latest | archive | edited by Mohammad Sajid Anwar
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Hi there The start of last week was terrible for all Perl fans. We found out that Sawyer had decided to step down from the Perl Steering Council and all other affiliates. At this time, when Perl is making a nice comeback, this came as quite a shocker. We need him now, more than ever, to be actively involved and take us to a new heights. Having said that, I do respect his decision and wish him all the best. I hope to meet him once again personally at some Perl conference. We shouldn't lose hope, though. Neil Bowers came up with detailed plan that gave me confidence that we will bounce back. I have seen Sawyer regularly at London Perl Workshops but never got to speak to him. Then came a big moment of my life, I was giving my talk Create tube map in 20 minutes using Map::Tube at the London Perl Workshops in 2017. Sawyer was the man behind the camera recording the talk. At the end of the talk, Sawyer came up to me and suggested how I could automate some of the tasks I mentioned in the talk. It was a big fan moment for me. Everything is still so fresh in my mind. Apologies for the delay as this is first edition for me during the month of Ramadan. I wish all the readers a very happy Ramadan. May ALLAH s.w.t. protect us all from the evils. Amen. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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by Jason McIntosh (JMAC) The Perl Foundation has proposed a project to help improve Perl documentation. |
Articles
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Discussion
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) Neil shared the behind-the-scenes story with the rest of the world. I am happy Neil is part of the team that is leading us forward. |
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Web
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by Thomas Claburn The Register published a news article about the recent news. |
Grants
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The Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Anwar will help you step out of your comfort zone. You can even win prize money of $50 Amazon vouchers by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all the contributors during that month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Chowla Numbers" and "Four Squares Puzzle". 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 the Team PWC dealing with the "Locate Memory" and "Bell Numbers" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Aaron Smith You are going to enjoy the discussion in Aaron's blog post. I simply love it. |
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by Abigail Cool hack to get a memory location in Perl. Thanks Abigail for sharing with us. |
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by Abigail Abigail once again gives us a glimpse of various languages while dealing with the Bell Numbers task. Thank you Abigail. |
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by Adam Russell Adam took the opportunity to share solutions in Perl and Prolog. You don't want to miss the opportunity to dig deep. | 
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by Arne Sommer Arne is unbeatable when it comes to the creativity of his blog titles. You will also find the content to be high quality. |
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by Colin Crain For me Colin's blog is very useful to improve my vocabulary. I love how he presents his thought process. I wish I could do that one day. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) A thorough discussion on the Bell Numbers task is the highlight of this blog post. You don't want to miss it. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio shares the power of state variables. Please check it out yourself. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas A very clean demonstration of Bell Numbers in Raku. Take this opportunity to learn Raku. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent is on a mission to show his skill. Plenty of choices of languages can be found in this blog post. |
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by W Luis Mochan I enjoyed the refactoring process in the solution to the Bell Numbers task. |
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by Luca Ferrari I loved the use of Raku's 'multi' feature. It makes code so clean and easy to read. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) I loved the hack shared by Roger. It a nice reminder to all of us, RTFM. |
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by Simon Green What a coincidence, I also got some help from the same animated GIF. Nice to know that both of us follow the same path. |
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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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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Events
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