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Issue #509 - 2021-04-26 - Community Affairs
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Hi there! The Perl Foundation has posted two reports from the CAT, the Community Affairs Team. In one of them it was discussing actions taken agains two individuals. They don't name the two people so I can only guess who they are. The links were posted to the Perl Subreddit raising all kinds of claims agains it claiming that the TPF post is a personal attack on someone. Subsequently the post was removed from the Perl (Sub)Reddit. It was unclear to me if the complaints against the post were made by those who were (not) mentioned in the CAT report, their devoted friends, or just by people who think that being nasty on an ongoing basis to others is an acceptable behaviour, but talking about it and condeming it is not. I had a tradition of posting a link to Perl Weekly to Reddit every time it was published. I am afraid this time I won't be able to do it as this post will be considered a personal attack on some unnamed person who seems to be holy. As for me, for a long time I have not felt part of some 'Perl community'. I try to serve the people who use Perl, I work with people for whom Perl is their main source of income. I like many of the people who are in and around what some might call the 'Perl community', but due to the behaviour of some individuals I also keep my distance. And frankly, I am sad. Well, that's it for now I hope you'll enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Mark Gardner It must be a lot of fun looking at text, even just dates in various languages and various character sets. And Mark did not even mention that if he wanted to use the Hebrew calendar then instead of Arabic numbers (0-9) that are used throughout the world (well except in Arabic :-), we use the Hebrew letters as numbers as well. | 
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) The little I understand the state of programming, I think there is a trend going towards more immutable objects. In Perl there are not many such objects, even constants are just functions. So it will be interesting to see how this works out. Will having immutables reduce the bugs in our code as promised by many or will it just increase the complexity? | 
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by Mark Gardner The 3rd part of the live coding series with Mark Gardner and Gabor Szabo. We get lots of good advice both during the live event and after. If you'd like to join us next time see the schedule. |
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The 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 during the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of PerlCareers.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome the new week with couple of fun tasks "Valid Phone Numbers" and "Transpose File". 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 contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Chowla Numbers" and "Four Squares Puzzle" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Aaron Smith Don't forget to check out the 'Specific Comments' section. Always packed with cool magic. |
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by Abigail Technical aspects of the task are discussed in details. Thanks Abigail. |
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by Abigail Again, there are plenty of different ways to deal with task discussed in this blog post. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne once again not only shares his solution but also shows the internals as well. Keep it up. |
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by Bartosz Jarzyna I loved the comparison between Perl and Python. You will definitely enjoy the discussion. |
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by Cheok-Yin Fung Cheok-Yin took the challenge to another level. You have to check it out yourself. Keep it up. |
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by Colin Crain I liked how the beautiful Raku solution is presented. I wish Perl could be used to write code like this. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Very nicely organised one-line subroutines. Looks elegant and clean. Great work. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio never just solves the task but also gives us more than just solution. You don't want to miss out. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas I loved how Jaldhar found the similarity between Four Squares Puzzle and Olympic Rings task. Very smart. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent seems to read my mind, smart brain. He correctly guessed that the output is not part of the requirements. Thank You. |
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by W Luis Mochan Thanks for reminding us about the Permutator from the Higher Order Perl book. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger shared two different approaches to solve the Four Squares Puzzle task. Interesting, you must check out. |
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by Ferenc Erki (FERKI) Live recording while FErki and Gabor are working on installing Elasticsearch and Nginx on CentOS. | 
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by JJ Merelo (JMERELO) The first time I pair-programmed in (broken) Spanish. Find further events here. |
Weekly collections
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A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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