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Issue #588 - 2022-10-31 - TRPF, what’s in a name?
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Hi there, Few days ago, I came across the official announcement with regard to the name change. I saw mixed reaction on Facebook groups for Perl fans. So what is my (personal) view on the topic? I understand name change is not an easy decision, it must have been going on for days if not months. My view is to keep Perl and Raku separate. Having said, I like the name change at least it is better than what it was before. Since we are talking about name change, my suggestion is why not change it back to "Yet Another Society (YAS)" as it was before if I am not mistaken. Then have two separate board under its wings i.e. "The Perl Foundation (TPF)" and "The Raku Foundation (TRF)". Also allow the individual board to decide the path they want to follow. This way we don't cross each others path and stay friendly. It sounds simple, isn't it? Not sure if it is easy to implement. This name change brought back memories when I decided to change the name Perl Weekly Challenge. As you all know, right from day one, we decided to have both Perl and Raku as the main contributing languages. A few months later after the launch, I found the name not reflecting what actual happens on the ground. But I already had the domain perlweeklychallenge.org registered and all the actions were happening under the same domain. After discussing with some of my close friends, I decided to change it to a new domain, theweeklychallenge.org. To me, it makes more sense as we gradually opened up to many more languages, 92 to be precise as of today. It wasn't an easy decision for me to change the name and move everything to new domain. Gabor Szabo helped me with the domain switch and patch the old domain to divert trafic to the new domain. Everthing seems to be stable now but I still refer the team as Team PWC as it is very close to my heart. How was your experience with Hacktoberfest 2022? My contributions this time didn't meet the minimum requirement of the event. Although I submitted 4 Pull Requests and all of them were accepted and merged by the author but only 2 PR were counted as the other two PR were part of non-participating repositories. Having said, I am happy many of the Team PWC members got more than 4 Pull Requests this time. Congratulations Team PWC. If you want to have fun and share your knowledge every week with others then please do join us here on The Weekly Challenge. Also please don't forget to checkout the experience of our champions. Enjoy rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) A very handy tutorial for those dealing with large git repository. Highly Recommended. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Have you ever dealt with certificate? If yes then you must read this post. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Fun post and it is the story of every developer in my opinion. I found a subtle bug in one of my own CPAN module after 10 years. I don't want to name and shame it, though. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks: "Greater Character" and "Array Degree". If you are new to the weekly challenge, 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 "Divisible Pairs" and "Total Zero" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Great detailed explanation makes the code easy to follow. Well done and thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Nice attempt to bring the maths behind the task. Loved it. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) I love the story telling style of blogging, it makes the blog fun to read. Great work, keep it up. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Great demo of Raku power as one-liner. Highly Recommended. |
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by James Smith Plenty of variations with performance table. Well crafted solutions. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Very clever coding, if you know Perl then you can easily Raku and if you know Raku you can easily follow Perl. Thanks to the great writing skill of Laurent. |
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by W Luis Mochan Master of Perl one-liners in action one more time. Keep it up great work. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Nice discussion of every aspect of the task, Great job. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Cool use of Euclid's algorithm for the task "Total Zero". Thanks for sharing knowledge with us. |
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by Simon Green Bonus Python solution together with Perl being part of the blog post. Nice, well done. |
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Weekly collections
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