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Issue #535 - 2021-10-25 - Exercism and Perl
latest | archive | edited by Gabor Szabo
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Hi there! A long, long time ago I contributed a few Perl-related exercises to Exercism, but then for another long time I only recommended it, but didn't use it myself. Recently I returned to it with the hope to use it as a platform to allow my students to practice. I noticed that the Perl track has 62 exercises while many of the other tracks have more. Some of them twice as many. Have you tried doing the Perl track recently? Are you a mentor on the Perl track? Have you contributed an exercises? I wonder if it would be a good idea for Mohammad, to post his Weekly challenges as exercises on Exercism. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) After doubting about Accounting::Kitty, I had to look more in depth into the alternatives. Inside the Ledger and co. heap I chose Beancount, which is supposed to be stricter in doing checks. | 
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by Mark Gardner Mark, in his usual enthusiastic way tells you, not surprisingly, that Perl is still alive. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) After laying down the needs in looking at Beancount, I went for a direct mapping of the different accounts, setting most of them as Assets and the External one as an Equity. |
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by Kang-min Liu Once in a while, people ask me how they can compile Perl. What they usually want is to be able to distribute a stand-alone executable without the end user needing to install Perl and a bunch of CPAN modules. Let's see how we can do that. |
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by Martin On August 21, 2021, famous Polish mathematician Andrzej Schinzel passed away at the age of 84. He was one of the great minds behind modern number theory. May he rest in peace. I have extended one of my CPAN modules relating to his work and dedicated the release to his memory. |
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When I first saw this post I wanted to make a snide comment, or use my power as the moderator of the Perl hashtag on dev.to and remove that tag, but I figured neither of those would be right. For 12 points the OP kept a straight face and brought up various more-or-less real issues with Perl, but then on the last point he lost it and he wrote he hates Perl because he hates Perl. Now I see Mark Gardner and Håkon Hægland, both trying to positively reach out. It is nice, but I think it is naive. Prove me wrong! |
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 voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of 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 to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Two Friendly" and "Fibonacci Sequence". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the FAQ. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Middle 3-digits" and "Validate SEDOL" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Abigail Abigail is the master of regex. I learn something new every time I read his code. Keep up the great work. |
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by Abigail I feel like collecting all of Abigail's regex solutions so far and putting them in a blog post for others to benefit from. Thank you for your contributions. |
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by Adam Russell Adam's blog post is precise and to the point. You don't want to miss the little NOTE section. Thank you. | 
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by Arne Sommer Arne is our in-house Raku guru in my humble opinion. Anyone who wants to learn Raku, this is the best place to learn from. Keep it up the great work. |
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by Colin Crain Welcome back, Colin. We all missed your blog posts. I read your blog to improve my vocabulary. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Highlight of Dave's blog post is the simplicity. Well-documented code that doesn't need to be explained. Keep it up; great work. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) This is an ideal for Perl programmers to learn Raku. You get to compare the two next to each other. Easy to follow style. Thank you for your contributions. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Yet another cool solution in both Perl and Raku. Not too difficult to read Raku code even for Perl developer. Thanks for sharing. |
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by James Smith James is known for writing beautiful-looking code. He did it again this week, Thanks for promoting Perl. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent making good use of Raku power when dealing with weekly task. His Perl solutions also looks like Raku at times. Keep it; up great work. |
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by W Luis Mochan Luis didn't disappoint either this week as he continued to show his one-liner skill. Thank you. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger's take on SEDOL validation is simply the best. I liked the clarity in his thoughts. Thank you for your contributions. |
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by Simon Green Simon does not waste time and comes to the point straight away. I like his short and precise blog posts every week. Thanks for the support. |
Weekly collections
Events
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021; 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) |
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