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Issue #706 - 2025-02-03 - Perl in 2025
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Hi there, Last weekend was busy with the FOSDEM 2025. Did you get the chance to attend the grand event? As always, this time too, we had Perl and Raku booth at the event. There was even an official statement from the TPF urging all members to join the Perl and Raku communities. The venue is not too far from where I live (London), yet I have never attended. In fact, I have never been to FOSDEM though every year I plan to attend and end up missing it. While looking for more information, I came across this gem: Perl in 2025. This was part of FOSDEM 2021 by the master himself, Paul Evans. If you take a closer look, you will realise we are almost there. Being human, we are never satisfied and always want more. It is easy to demand more but very hard to give time and energy. If you remember, I mentioned about the GitHub repository for PPC in the Perl Weekly newsletter. Now I hear, this will be exposed as GitHub pages as shared in this two parts post: part 1 and part 2 by Dave Cross. Enjoy rest of the newsletter and please do take extra care of yourself. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Announcements
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by Makoto Nozaki Makoto-san resigning from the board position at TPF (The Perl Foundation) also known as TPRF (The Perl and Raku Foundation). | 
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Articles
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by Leon Timmermans (LEONT) There are exactly 7 types, all variables/values are exactly one of them, and they can never change into another type. Though only 5 of them are directly accessible so one could argue there are only 5 true types. | 
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) A thorough process to build PPC web portal shared in the post, with detailed story around it. | 
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by Nicholas Hubbard An interesting realworld use case showing the power of named pipe. You must check it out. |
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by John Barrett This post will walk through the implementation of a pair of features to augment those found in a MIDI keyboard — a M-Audio Oxygen Pro 61 in this case, though the principle should apply to any device. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Odd Sum" and "Last Element" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Arne Sommer Get to know more about the Raku magics and also the best practices to use in real world. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Jorg Sommrey Every week, we learn something new about CPAN module. This week, it was 'binsert'. Great work, keep it up. |
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by W Luis Mochan Nice to see PDL in action. It makes end result compact and cute. Thanks for promoting PDL, keep it up. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Don't you love when you are presented with multiple solutions to the same problem. Plent to learn each week. Keep it up great work. |
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by Robbie Hatley Multi loops and get the job done without any gimmicks. Sweet and simple solution, well done. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) My personal favourite Postscript was the pick of the language for the blog post. The narration really helps to understand the flow. Thanks for your contributions. |
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by Simon Green Welcome back after a short break, great to see you in action. Ideal for any Python fans. Keep it 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) I organize live online presentation with guest speakers about Rust and Python. I'd also include presentations about Perl if there were volunteers to give such presentations. So if you have something that you think might be interesting to others and if you are ready to give a 30-60 min presentation about it, let me (Gabor) know. | 
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