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Issue #544 - 2021-12-27 - Merry Christmas
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Hi there We wish all the readers of the newsletter, Merry Christmas. I hope and wish you are all enjoying quality time with your loved ones. Belated happy birthday to my favourite language, Perl, on completing 34 years. Mark Gardner used his weekly blogging schedule to celebrate the occassion in his blog post. Do you remember which year you first picked up the Perl language? For me, I was introduced to Perl in the year 1998. So technically, I am 23 Perl years old. How about you? I am wondering if anyone other than the creator picked the language in the first year that it existed. If you know their name then please do share it with us. I am sure there must be a handful of people that I am not aware of. Talking about birthday celebrations, I would like to wish belated Happy Birthday to the mother of our chief editor, Gabor Szabo. As per the record, my birthday was last Monday i.e. 20th December. To date, I have never celebrated my birthday, this year also went without celebration. I noticed that I am getting close to my 100th edition of the newsletter. This is my 94th edition. It would be a big achievement for me, personally, to reach that number. I am looking forward to the 556th edition of the weekly newsletter as that will be my 100th edition. Stay safe and enjoy the holiday break. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
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by Nic Evans If you consider your year-end philanthropy, TPF highlights a few strategies that may reduce your tax liability. |
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by Todd Rinaldo Come to the Perl and Raku Conference in Houston! You can expect to see a lot of presentations on Perl, Raku, and supporting languages. |
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by Ed Jordan Summary: 64-bit indexing, native complex number support, automatic pthreading using all available CPU cores, faster installation thanks to parallel-building, memory-mapped data, repository hosted on GitHub, easy to use "with" Inline. |
Articles
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by Mark Gardner Mark's weekly blog post celebrates the big day with 34 cool features of Perl language. | 
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by Nikos Vaggalis Nikos, sharing a retrospective view on Perl. Well written article, not to be missed. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) On with Advent of Code puzzle 13 from 2021: folding transparent paper, origami style. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) On with Advent of Code puzzle 14 from 2021: taming exponential growth in the evolution mechanism. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) On with Advent of Code puzzle 16 from 2021: good old bit stream decoding |
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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 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 "Dot Product" and "Palindromic Tree". 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 "Semiprime" and "Ulam Sequence" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell Adam presentis the power of grep in this week solution. Cool promotion of Perl power. | 
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by Arne Sommer The solution to the Semiprime task in Raku is amazingly simple. I wish I knew this before. Thanks Arne for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Flavio has been kind and shared multiple approaches to solve the task. Hard to pick one; thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) The questions section of this blog post brought a big smile to my face. I didn't plan it, honestly. Raku solution is my favourite this week. |
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by James Smith James's contributions week after week impress me a lot. I learn a lot from his contributions. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent showcases the power of Raku in way that anyone can easily follow the code. Keep it up great work. |
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by Luca Ferrari Solution to Semiprime in Raku is really cool, showing method chaining. Just love it. Thanks. |
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by W Luis Mochan Really cool demo of a one-liner showing the use of PDL. Keep it up; great work. |
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by Mark Senn Mark dedicates a blog post to each solution so that we can focus on one solution at a time. This one is also well-documented. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Great task analysis of the Ulam Sequence task. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger chose his Raku solution to the Semiprime task to discuss in his blog post this week. Detailed analysis makes it easy to follow. Thanks for sharing. |
Videos
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Rakudo
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The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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Weekly collections
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Our client is an online financial services company, still rapidly expanding after 20 years of impressive growth. With a truly international presence, they’re well known globally in their niche. Looking for Perl developers with a strong background in Modern Perl – you should be comfortable with Moose and PSGI/Plack, and a solid grounding in using Perl’s testing tools. |
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We know that a lack of commercial experience doesn’t always reflect skill level, know-how, or programming brilliance. You know your stuff. You’re keen to grow and learn. You know that if someone would only just give you a chance, and let you in the door, you could really shine! |
