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Issue #696 - 2024-11-25 - Perl 5 is Perl
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Hi there, I remember when I started The Weekly Challenge, I used to refer to Perl as Perl 5 just to differentiate it from Perl 6, which is now called Raku. Ever since Perl 6 became Raku, I went back to simply calling it Perl. During the London Perl Workshop 2024, I heard the whispers about the proposal of change in version but no details were available at the time to my knowledge. Before I talk about it, let me share this GitHub repository for Proposed Perl Changes (PPCs). Anyone curious to know what is happening or in the pipeline, can easily get the update here. Not only that, you can even submit a feature request too. While going through the list of proposals, I came across this proposal for Perl version. A big round of applause to Aristotle Pagaltzis for such a detailed document that dives into the finer points. You must checkout the document yourself, in case I missed any important bits. As far as my understandings, in the next Perl stable release the Perl version would be 42.0. I'd be surprised if it goes without any arguments and counter arguments. If you ask for my personal opinion, I'm happy with the proposal. I hope the transition will be smooth.
As we reach the end of November, two annual events are approaching: the Advent Calendar and 24 PullRequests. Personally, I'm looking forward to the Perl Advent Calendar 2024 as it will be celebrating its There is also one more event, Perl Community Conference, Winter 2024 scheduled for 18th December. It will be in a hybrid format. Enjoy the start of the holiday season and stay safe. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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by Brett Estrade (OODLER) The Perl Community Conference is a hybrid in-person-and-online event held on December 18th from 10:30a-4:30p CST. | 
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by Curtis 'Ovid' Poe (OVID) Gem of an article talking about Vector Database and showing how to work with it using Perl. | 
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A big announcement, the merger of PPC0025 about the "Perl 5 is Perl". |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "String Compression" and "Matchstick Square" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Ali Moradi Known for compact, yet beautiful solutions, this week contribution is no different. Keep it up great work. |
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by Arne Sommer A very simple and straight forward approach without any magic, rare occassion. With lots of discussion around it, would keep you busy. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Interesting discussion about the use of heavy duty regex, very engaging. Solution is well documented to let you through. | 
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Raku magical multi-dispatch feature in play this week on top of serious regex in action. Highly recommended. |
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by Jorg Sommrey A complete solutions for encoding and decoding using just regex, very impressive. Great work, thanks for sharing. |
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by W Luis Mochan Ideal challenge for the master of one-liners in Perl and you nailed it. Coolest one. |
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by Matthias Muth Good use of CPAN modules with detailed narratives. Well done, keep it up. |
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by Packy Anderson (PACKY) As always, varieties of solutions in different languages. Too much to handle in one go. Highly recommended. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Loved behind the scene story about the slow resposnse of using regex. You get DIY tool as bonus as always. Thanks for sharing knowledge with us. |
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by Robbie Hatley Simply using substr() and got the job done, that's the beauty. Cool work, keep it up. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Line by line narrative is so handy to decode the complex logic. Thanks for making it look like cake walk. |
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by Simon Green Loved the complete regex solution in Python. If you are new to Python then you must check it out. Great work. |
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