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Issue #577 - 2022-08-15 - Optimism and numbers
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Hi there! last week Mohammad expressed his optimism about Perl rising again. It's nice to have a gut feeling about that, but I would also like to see the numbers. So I looked at the stats I've been collecting for a while: The number of visits to CPAN. More specifically these are the number of "entrances" to MetaCPAN (and in earlier times to SCO as well.) as measured by Google Analytics. My assumption is that we can measure well the level of Perl usage by the number of visits to MetaCPAN. The number for July 2022 does not indicate any (positive) changes, but it is probably too early to see any effects anyway. However, looking at the numbers I noticed that there was a nice increase in the activity in 2012. Actually starting in August 2011. This increased activity lasted about a year then the decline continued and by 2014 the activity was below that of the 2011 level. I could find 2 Perl-related events preceding the increased activity. In May 2011 the release of perl 5.14 and in July the opening of MetaCPAN. Neither seem to explain the change. So I am turning to you: What other things happened in or out of the Perl community that might explain that sudden increase of visitors to CPAN? Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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by Robin Winslow "It's an introduction to the basics of regular expressions. There are many like it, but this is mine." |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) At this point, we have all the moving parts we need to assemble the Cipher function, let's go! | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Our implementation now has a useable way to encrypt and decrypt stuff according to the AES standard, although it’s not very straightforward. We can do better from a useability point of view. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) After a little detour to build our own AES toy implementation, we're finally ready for addressing Challenge 7. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) This challenge is about sifting through a bunch of lines in a provided file and see which represents something encrypted with AES-ECB. There is, apparently, exactly one such line. |
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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 "Quater-imaginary Base" and "Business Date". 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 "Damm Algorithm" and "Palindromic Prime Cyclops Numbers" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Detailed analysis with links to the documentation, helps to understand the code better. Keep it up great work. |
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by Colin Crain Always pleasure to have dedicated blog post for each task. Well crafted blog post. Well done. |
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by Colin Crain Compact solution to the task, easy to follow. Keep it up great work. |
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by James Smith Just love the extra effort put in the second task. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I noticed the blog post is more about Raku solution than the Perl. Anyway I enjoy it. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Blog post style is like 2-way communications. You never get bored reading. Great work. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld We are lucky once again to have so many different guest languages. Thank you for your contributions. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith A very interesting discussion about the second task. Worth checking it out. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) This week Roger kindly discussed Perl and few other solutions in the blog post. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Simon Green Simon pointed out very interesting aspect of the second task. You don't want to miss it. |
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by Stephen G Lynn Thorough discussion of the second task is the highlight for me. Keep it up great work. |
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Weekly collections
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Our client is a global leader in machine intelligence, and they’re looking for a Natural Language Processing (NLP) whiz who has experience maintaining and improving large Perl applications and tooling ecosystems. From Finland to the Faroe Islands, this remote role is open to senior Perl developers who are within two hours of Amsterdam’s time zone. |
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