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Issue #514 - 2021-05-31 - Is OOP bad?
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Hi there First things first, I am a big fan of OOP in general. However I do agree OOP is not always the best choice. Since Perl promotes the idea of TIMTOWTDI (There's more than one way to do it), we have plenty of options to pick from. I have come across many Perl haters in the past complaining about lack of proper OOP support in Perl. With the introduction of postmodern object system for Perl, Moose, we finally had structured OOP support. I must confess I prefer Moo which is known as minimalist object orientation. Fast forward to now, Curtis Poe joined hands with other Perl masters and came up with Corinna. It is proposed to be part of core Perl soon. I can't wait for that to happen. I sincerely applaud the efforts of each and every contributor of Corinna. I beleive it will be the best addition to the Perl core in recent times. I am confident it will be the highlight of the future Perl7. In the last week edition of the weekly newsletter, Gabor reminded me that I forgot to celebrate the special 512th edition. What a shame, I missed the opportunity. I blame my busy routine for the missed opportunity. I am looking forward to my personal 100th edition of the weekly newsletter. This is the 79th edition for the record, not far off from the target. Happy to see, the COVID-19 situation in India is getting better. I pray to ALLAH s.w.t for the complete protection from COVID-19. Please look after yourself and your loved ones. To all our readers in the UK, enjoy your bank holiday with the weekly newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Next Palindrome Number" and "Higher Integer Set Bits" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Please check out the interview with Tyler Wardhaugh, Champion of the month for March. |
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by Aaron Smith Aaron's point by point explanation of Raku feature is the highpoint of his blog post. Keep it up. |
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by Abigail Abigail once again shared the mathematical aspect of palindromes. It makes me feel I know nothing. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Abigail Abigail is unbeatable when it comes to regex. Please check it out yourself to see what I am talking about. |
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by Arne Sommer A complete application in Perl and Raku with detailed discussion, as always. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Christian Jaeger Find out more about Functional Perl in this blog post. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Colin Crain Colin's choice of blog title is really cool. I love reading it for its literary value. Keep it up. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) When I see no questions being asked in the blog post, it means a lot. It reminds me of my early days with Raku. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio used brute force method to get the desired result. Small and compact solution. |
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by James Smith James's focus on performance is the highlight. Plenty to learn from his work. Keep up the great work. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld For me the USP of Laurent's blog post is to see the comparison of his Perl and Raku implementations. You don't want to miss the discussion. |
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by W Luis Mochan I loved the hack used for the 'Higher Integer Set Bits' task. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Luca Ferrari As always, you can find interesting Raku magic in Luca's blog post. Fun to read the blog. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger's use of substr() to generate palindrome is the surprise element for me. Thanks for sharing the hack. |
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by Simon Green Simon's use of brute force method made it compact and concise. Cool attempt. |
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