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Issue #695 - 2024-11-18 - Perl: Half of our life
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Hi, A month from now Randal Schwartz is going to give a presentation with the title "Half My Life with Perl". I tried to come up with a clever title for this issue of the newsletter that would reflect that title and I had to realize that I have been using Perl also for half of my life. It is probably similar for quite a lot of people in the hard-core of the Perl communities. Many have moved on to other languages. Some of those still have a nostalgic feeling for their 'first love' in the 'good old days'. It is sad to see the decline in popularity. I remember the time when we had several conferences and workshops every year and hundreds of active Perl Monger groups with tens of monthly meetings around the world. Long before Meetup became a thing. Now there are only 18 groups listed and seeing the list of events at the bottom of this newsletter it seems only 3 or 4 are active. The readership of this newsletter has also declined from a peak of 6,443 subscribers in May 2018 to 4,398 today. But not all is lost. There are still people working on Perl as you can see from the grants. There are still people uploading libraries to CPAN as you can see from the recent report. There are still some people writing about Perl. There are still some companies using Perl. Have a nice week! Gabor Szabo |
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Announcements
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by Olaf Alders (OALDERS) As part of year 25 of The Perl Advent Calendar, Perl luminary and co-author of O'Reilly's "Learning Perl" Randal Schwartz will be giving a presentation entitled "Half My Life with Perl". The presentation takes place on Saturday, Dec 14, 2024. | 
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Articles
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Another personal project of Dave that made it to CPAN as well. Think about it as a LinkTree clone. reddit | 
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Grants
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Perl
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "String Compression" and "Matchstick Square". 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 "Word Break" and "Jump Game" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Trying different approaches until you end up with one that gives the expected result. Thanks for sharing behind the scene story. |
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by Jorg Sommrey Simply love the compact solution with lots of magic. Cutest contributions, well done. |
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by Luca Ferrari Welcome back and thanks for sharing knowledge with us every week. My all time favourite is PostgreSQL solution. Keep it up great work. |
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by W Luis Mochan Curious to know the benefit of the use of Memoize in the one-liner. Keep it up great work. |
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by Matthias Muth Interesting comparison of CPAN module and homemade logic. Pick your choice. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Another good show of recursion where it does the job every efficiently. Keep up the great work. |
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by Robbie Hatley Cool use of subroutine signature and recursive. Thanks for sharing knowledge with us every week. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Demo of breadth-first search pattern in Raku for you. Highly recommended. |
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by Simon Green From Perl and Python expert, here we have mix of both. Easy narrative to follow, keep up great work. |
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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) This seems to be a generic problem regardless of the programming language, though I wonder how does the age of the programming language and the traditions of the Open Source communities around the language impact this. |
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