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Issue #537 - 2021-11-08 - How do you spend your free time?
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Hi The Perl Weekly newsletter is more than 10 years old and over those years we have witnessed a huge decline in the number and diversity of posts. There are still a few people who write about Perl regularly, The Weekly Challenge of Mohammad generates many posts, but in general we see fewer and fewer posts. I wonder, do those people who used to write about Perl write about other technologies or have they just stopped? How come that so few people write about Perl? Are there no new things in Perl? Are there no new problems that one solves in Perl? I know that writing about stuff is not the same thing as writing the stuff, but as many other people who write or teach will attest, the best way to improve your knowledge is to explain it. to explain it to live audience (at a Meetup) or to write about it in a blog post. So how do you spend your free time? Do you write more code? Do you try to explain what you wrote, how you wrote and why? Or do you spend your time on some other activities? I, for examples started to read a lot more than I did in the recent years. And sure, I'll even share my recommendations with you. (See below.) In any case enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Mark Gardner Template processors and engines are one of those pieces of software where it seems every developer wants to reinvent the wheel. Goodness knows I’ve done it earlier in my career. Tell me if this sounds familiar? | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Workdays" and "Split Number". 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 "Long Year" and "Lychrel Number" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Abigail Abigail's blog post is about more than just the task. Plenty of ideas to explore. Keep it up. Great work. |
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by Abigail I appreciate the amount of work put in to prepare this brilliant blog post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. |
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by Arne Sommer I am not sure if you noticed, but Arne always does varieties of solutions of the same task. Plenty to keep you entertained. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I enjoyed the Raku solution more than the Perl one. It is so obviously written by a Perl developer. Great piece of work as always. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) The discussion made reading the code so easy that anyone can follow it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. |
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by James Smith James has, once again, gone beyond the task and shared his analysis of the Lychrel Number task. It is always pleasure reading his blog. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld A unique approach to the Long Year task. Great discussion. Keep it up. Great work. |
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by Luca Ferrari Luca recently started sharing solutions in PostgreSQL along with Raku. What a bonus we got, thanks Luca. |
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by W Luis Mochan I really like Luis' one-liner. It is so much fun to decode the code. Even the Lychrel number was turned into a one-liner. Great. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger made the Long Year task look so simple. It is magical. Keep up the great work. |
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by Simon Green Simon brought an interesting topic to the discussion. This is one of the benefits you have with a blog. So easy to share your knowledge. Thanks as always. |
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