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Issue #602 - 2023-02-06 - RIP Ben Davies
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Hi there, I got the sad news about Ben Davies through the git notifications, being member Raku github repositories. Although I didn't know him personally but I felt a personal loss. He was so young and actively involved in development of Raku language. I found this page sharing the details, if you are interested. It reminded of loss another very dear friend of mine, Jeff Goff (aka DrForr). I had the honour to meet him at various Perl/Raku conferences. Life is so unpredictable, it is unbelievable. I have reached a point in my life where every little things create havoc as far as health is concerned. Talking about heartbroken news, I would like to bring the subject raised by Gabor Szabo in the last edition of the weekly newsletter. At times, I wonder how can one be so disrespectful to others. I was really sad to hear what Gabor had to go through. Honestly speaking, I only came to know about Antisemitism when I moved to England in 2000. During my college days, I never had interest in subject outside of domain of India. Although I was aware of love/hate relationship between Muslims and Jews, I never bothered looking into the history behind it. Muslim community in general in India is more sympathetic towards fellow muslims. Some may find, my relationship with Gabor strange. Again, I must confess that I wasn't aware about Gabor background when I first met him when he took my interview in 2016. I only found out later about him being a Jewish when I had further interactions with him with regard to CPAN works. He has been my mentor ever since I first met him and has helped me every time I was in trouble. For me, religion is very personal thing and I like to keep it private. Having said, I don't hide the fact that I am a practicing Muslim. I urge everyone, please be kind to each other and spread love. Life is too short, so enjoy every moment of it. Enjoy the rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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by Jason A. Crome (CROMEDOME) Welcome to 2023 (just a little bit late)! We've put together a number of long overdue updates for Dancer, Dancer2, and other parts of the ecosystem. | 
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by Herbert Breunung (LICHTKIND) The most requested feature of the Cellgraph is now in operation: Colors. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks: "Special Quadruplets" and "Copy Directory". 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 "Consecutive Odds" and "Widest Valley" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Not just one but multiple versions presented by Arne with detailed comments. Keep it up great work. |
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by Colin Crain Task analysis by Colin is always the highlight of the week. Really enjoyed itm thanks for sharing. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Solutions without any complicated logic, using just for-loops. Incredible, well done. | 
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Interesting questions raised and cool solutions too in the end. Well done. |
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by Flavio Poletti (POLETTIX) Loved the story behind the solution. The process of getting there is always fun. Great work, keep it up. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Unique style of code with inline comment really helps understand the flow. Great work. |
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by James Smith Compact yet power packed solutions as always. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Great demo of porting Raku solutions into Perl. I find it helpful to understand the code better. Well done. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Cool one-liner in Perl and interesting task analysis. Great work. |
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by Robbie Hatley Use of finite state mmachine to solve the Widest Valley task is interesting. Well done. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Roger choosen Raku and Rust this week to talk about in the blog post. Highly recommended if you Raku/Rust fan. |
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by Simon Green Simon gone into the finer details this week, you don't want to miss it. Well done. |
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