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Issue #644 - 2023-11-27 - Perl Sponsor?
latest | archive | edited by Mohammad Sajid Anwar
This edition was made possible by the supporters of our cause.
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Hi there, Do you or your company sponsor Perl directly or indirectly? As we all know, The Perl and Raku Foundation, is the parent organisation responsible for the development of Perl and Raku programming languages. They are also the single point of contact for any donations, whether individual or corporate. Without a doubt they are doing great service promoting Perl and Raku programming languages. I have personally seen how they support annual conferences around the globe. Why am I talking about it today? I run The Weekly Challenge project primarily focus on Perl and Raku but open to all programming languages. It was started on 25th March 2019. It has been going on un-interrupted ever since, thanks to the strong 350+ members of Team PWC. We were lucky enough to have solo sponsor, Perl Careers run by Peter Sergeant since July 2019 without break. Initially we had weekly prize sponsorship but later it was changed to monthly sponsorship. The best part was, I didn't have to move a finger to find the sponsor. Pete was generous enough to come forward and continued supporting the project for such a long time. Is it time to look for new sponsor? Well, we are not expensive to sponsor, honestly speaking. The prize money has been 50 USD since the beginning. Although I have been looking for new sponsors for sometime but never done anything about it. It is just not my cup of tea. Because of this, I put the code move on hold for such a long time. Ideally I wanted to move the code base to pure Perl solution instead of currently Hugo which is based on Go. I also wanted to move away from GitHub pages hosted solution to a proper hosted solution that we can manage ourself. I could have requested TPRF for financial help but again I am not competent enough to make formal request. As we are growing very fast every week, it is getting out of hand to manage the contributions by the team member. GitHub takes lot longer to process the data as some of the team member complained about it too. I wish we had our own repository to manage the contributions. Any help or suggestions are most welcome. Last but not the least, please do remember all those affected by the recent conflicts in your daily prayer. Enjoy rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
Articles
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by David Hodgkinson Have you played with tainting on/off? Nice discussion how Perl behaves in each scenario. |
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by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE) One of the many great CPAN Testers, Ron, shared the curated list of Perl modules. | 
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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: "Sort Language" and "Largest of Three". 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 "Count Smaller" and "Group Hero" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell Clever use of map and grep to get the desired result. Well done and thanks for sharing. | 
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by Ali Moradi Very compact and cute solutions. You must check it out. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Arne Sommer Quality post with the most creative title every week. Keep it up great work. |
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by Bob Lied So many variations and ideas. Plenty to keep you all busy. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Thanks for reviewing CPAN module and sharing the details. Keep it up and well done. | 
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by Ian Rifkin Bloggng style is 2 way communication and I love it. Well done. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Raku one-liner, very impressive. Please keep us entertained every week. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Simple and straight forward solutions both in Perl and Raku, no gimmicks. Thank you. |
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by Laurent Rosenfeld Showing off the power of Raku built-in features. Perl is not far off either. Well balanced solutions. Keep it up great work. |
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by Lubos Kolouch Love the innocent comparison of Perl and Python. Well done. |
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by W Luis Mochan Use of CPAN module is clever move to get a compact solution. Well done. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Scalable and Do It Yourself styled solutions. Great effort, keep it up. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Rust is very impressive, I must admit. You should check it out yourself. Highly recommended. |
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by Simon Green This is incredible, one-liner in Python. Simply the best. Thanks for sharing. |
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Weekly collections
The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) The site checker is a new project of mine. If you have a web site, let me know what would you need to make this useful for you! | 
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) I've started to rewrite the code behind the Perl Maven and Code Maven sites to be a static site generator. |
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by Gabor Szabo (SZABGAB) The Rust Maven web site contains all the new Rust-related articles and Rust-related slides. If you are interested in Rust sign up to my newsletter! |
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