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Issue #551 - 2022-02-14 - Nothing to do with Perl
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Hi, Two weeks ago I wrote about Wordle and that it has 'Nothing to do with Perl'. Within a few hours Saif Ahmed proved me wrong and posted an implementation of Wordle in Perl. That's the spirit! On a totally different topic, but still nothing to do with Perl: I just saw someone I know from the Perl community posting yet another disgusting accusation against Israel. As people more clever than me said: 'In the Middle Ages, Jews were accused of killing Christ. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century they were accused of ruining the nations where they lived. Today they are accused of apartheid, genocide, and having concentration camps'. Some people always find ways to blame the Jews for the crimes that are considered the worst by the contemporary civilization. Why am I writing about this, you ask? Because it hurts me a lot. You can't do much about it, but I hope that whenever you hear or see something horrific thing that Israel is accused of, you will double and triple-check it before you accept it as truth, 'like' it, or 'share' it. I hope you'll remember that an awful lot of misinformation is spread by people. Both by people who have an agenda against Jews and people who fall for true-looking lies. Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Tomasz Wegrzanowski It is nice that it was included in the series, but the author obviously hasn't seen Damian Conway's presentation explaining it. Unfortunately I think there is no publicly available recording of it. |
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by Saif Uddin Ahmed (SAIFTYNET) Two weeks ago I mentioned the various Wordle clones and Saif went ahead and created a Perl implementation of it. Very nice! | 
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I saw this post on Reddit where people also had quite a few negative comments on the code. Some of those people have written tutorials, books, or taught the language and thus I am fine seeing their criticism. But some have only criticized. Well go ahead, write a better article. Show us that you know how to write an article with good examples. |
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by Makoto Nozaki I love the idea behind the Outreachy program and a while ago, while learning Spanish, I wanted to encourage more people living in South America to apply. So I read the Outreachy Applicant Guide. They explain that one needs to show why they should be accepted and they recommend this to be detailed. So instead of writing "I face religious discrimination" they suggest the applicant writes "I am a Muslim in France. Muslims make up less than 2.3% of France's population. I face religious discrimination.". So people at Outreachy think that Muslims in France face religious discrimination AND/OR they try to encourage people to feel that way. It is strange they thought that this should be the example on their web site on how to provide clear information. | 
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by Neil Bowers (NEILB) The conclusion is that CPAN is, just as Perl is, and has been for a while, in a decline. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Triangle Sum Path" and "Rectangle Area". 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 "Binary Tree Depth" and "Rob The House" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Arne's interpretation of the second task is cool and on top we get a pictorial representation. And such a detailed description makes the code easy to read. Thanks for all the hard work. |
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by Colin Crain Colin one-line parser for input string is classic, I loved it. The rest is Colin's usual speciality; you don't want to miss it. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Thanks, Dave for sharing the history of Nicholas Metropolis. For me, this is a bonus on top of a clever solution. Keep it up; great work. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) The question section is the highlight for me every week. This is where I get to know the gaps in the task description. The solution itself is a masterpiece. Highly Recommended. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I found the Raku solution more compact than the Perl solution, although they are identical in nature. Keep it up great work. |
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by James Smith It feels nice that some team members still call the weekly challenge by the name 'Perl Weekly Challenge'. James presents a nice challenge to me every week. I always look forward to his compact and precise solution. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Laurent always shares Perl and Raku solutions which makes it fun to compare the logic in two different languages. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Peter's blog post is pure task analysis which is, again, one of the benefits of having a blog post. Thanks Peter for sharing your thought process. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger's choice of a Rust solution to discuss in his blog post is very interesting. I always find a mix of languages in his blog. Keep it up great work. |
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by Simon Green Simon uses few words to explain the task and keep it simple, to the point. Thanks for your contributions. |
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