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Issue #636 - 2023-10-02 - Happy Birthday Larry
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Hi there, A belated, Happy Birthday to the creator of Perl. May the joy that you have spread in the past come back to you on this day. Just for record, the birthday was on 27th September. Do you use homebrew? brian d foy did all the hard work to get homebrew up to the latest Perl v5.38. If you are keen to know the details then please do checkout the pull request. Olaf Alders recently shared his cool creation, is: an inspector for your environment. I am sure for all System Administrators out there, it would be very handy. I am not sure, if you noticed this but PerlMonks certificate expired few days ago. I only noticed as one of the contributor to The Weekly Challenge shared link to the site. The very next day, I saw post by Olaf Alders on Twitter talking about it and sharing the tool that can help avoid such incident in future. The certificate has now been restored. Do you know the current maintainer of CPAN Testers server? I saw Facebook post by Mark Keating just few days ago. I remember, Doug Bell helped many years ago when I was playing daily CPAN upload games. He gave me access to deal with the issues I was facing at the time. I just hope, it stays live and kicking. It is the second best thing for us after MetaCPAN. If you are interested to sponsor the MetaCPAN then you now have plenty of different options. Please find out more about it in the official announcement page. For all newbies wanted to explore Perl, please checkout the Perl Programming Course by FreeCodeCamp. Thank you Nikos Vaggalis for sharing this with us. The annual event, Hacktoberfest 2023 is back. If you contribute to opensource projects on GitHub then I would highly recommend to take part in the event. For more details, please checkout the announcement. Enjoy rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
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by Olaf Alders (OALDERS) Please do come forward and support MetaCPAN Core. As of now, we have 19 contributors. It would be nice to see this grow with your support. | 
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The annual festival is live and kicking. Please do join and contribute to open source projects on GitHub. |
Articles
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by Mikko Koivunalho If you are fan of plenv the this plugin would be very handy. How? You need to checkout the post for more details. |
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by Christos Argyropoulos A detailed comparison to help you understand the pros/cons. Please keep us busy with more such posts. |
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: "Seize The Day" and "Maximise Greatness". 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 "Exact Change" and "Array Loops" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell I noticed the use of 'redo' after a long time. Nice solutions without any complications. Thanks for sharing. | 
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by Arne Sommer Good show of BagHash, new to me. Thank you for entertaining us with Raku magic every week. |
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by Avery Adams You can never the simplicity of the language to explain the logic. Great work, keep it up. |
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by Bob Lied Simple use of pop/push can be more than enough to get the job done. Please checkout to figure out. |
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by Bob Lied You are served with multiple approaches for this week solution. You must checkout. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas I like the rarely used given/when in Perl solution. You also get bonus Raku version. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld You have clean and verbose solutions in Perl and Raku, like always. Well done and thanks. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Cool use of 'loop' of Raku. The language never stops surprising me. |
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by Lubos Kolouch Breakdown of process makes it so easy to follow the logic. Please keep sharing blog. |
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by W Luis Mochan Breaking the tradition, we have 2-liners in Perl by the man himself. You don't want to skip it. |
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by Matthias Muth Well documented solutions as always and plenty to learn too. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Packy Anderson (PACKY) Enjoy the bonus Python and java on top of Perl and Raku. Keep it up great work. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Code analysis is precise and to the point. You could just jump and try the solution straight away. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Glad that Roger got excited and we get more than we expected. Highly recommended. |
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by Shimon Bollinger Well structured blog post sharing every little details, enough to keep you busy. Keep it up great work. |
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by Shimon Bollinger Bonus post and here we have one more explaining the algorithm. Good job. |
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