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Issue #718 - 2025-04-28 - Top Perl Companies
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Hi there, Please accept my apology for sharing a crypto scam link in the 716th edition of the newsletter. Thanks to Gabor and Dave, it was removed straight away. I will be more cautious from now onwards, promise. Recently, I stumbled upon a post titled "Top 11 Perl Services Companies in the World in 2025". Sadly, not a single one is based in my city London. There was a time, we had plenty! Still, it's not all bad. I was thrilled to see ActiveState on the list, the company behind ActiveState Perl. In an earlier edition of the newsletter, I mentioned my wish to attend the Perl Toolchain Summit which is an invite-only annual event. I also shared my interest in contributing to the MetaCPAN project. To my absolute delight, that wish came true the very same day! I received an invitation from the organiser to join the Perl Toolchain Summit 2025, happening in Leipzig, Germany from May 1st to May 4th 2025. I didn't wait even a second to accept the invitation. It's truly an honour to be part of such a talented group. In all the excitement, I've already booked my flight ticket to Berlin and from there I'll hop on a fast train to Leipzig. The last time, I visited Germany was back in 2018 when I attended the 20th German Perl Workshop in the city of Gummersbach. I even gave couple of talks and one of them being "Introduction to Map::Tube". After the event, I even shared my experience in this event report. Enjoy rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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There was a time, Perl was ruling booking.com. It has changed now, checkout the discussion to find out the current state of affairs. |
Articles
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by Dragos Trif For all Rose::DB fans, this is for you, a very handy when it comes to generating fixtures for unit test. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Map::Tube finally supports Unicode character in station and line names officially. Please give it a try. |
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Release blockers discussed and merged few PRs. Getting ready for the next release? |
Discussion
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This is very interesting question and solution is even more cooler, worth checking out. |
CPAN
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by Ron Savage (RSAVAGE) Many thanx to Shawn Laffan for testing this version on Strawberry Perl. I test it on my Debian machine first of course. It took Shawn and myself a number of attempts to make all the test pass under the 2 types of OSes. | 
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Upgrade minimum Perl v5.14 for better Unicode support. Also few handy updates. |
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Word Count" and "Minimum Common". 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 "Group Position" and "Reverse Equals" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell Perl only this week but enough to keep you busy with engaging narration. Keep it up great work. | 
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by Arne Sommer Line by line discussion makes it super easy to follow the workflow. Bonus, you get the official word about each function used. Well done and keep it up. |
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by Bob Lied CPAN friendly solution is my all time favourite, it makes the end result cute and compact. Thanks for sharing the knowledge. |
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by Jorg Sommrey Are you PDL fan? Well even if you aren't this will blow your mind. Simply incredible. |
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by Luca Ferrari Raku one-liner with function chaining is so elegant and unbeatable. Great work, keep it up. |
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by W Luis Mochan Obfuscated Perl? Well it is so close to that this time. Not easy to decode in first attempt. Keep sharing knowledge. |
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by Matthias Muth Great discussion about backreferences to capture groups in regex. Not so easy to understand but the discussion made it so simple. Thanks for sharing knowledge. |
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by Packy Anderson (PACKY) Musical theme post is back, you'll never get bored. Plenty of choices to pick. Highly recommended. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith When it comes to Perl regex, we get plenty of varieties. Thanks for the cool naration and DIY tool. Keep it up great work. |
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by Robbie Hatley Getting more than what is asked is always handy with detailed task analysis. Well done. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Never under-estimate the power of JavaScript. Line by line discussion is very handy too. Highly recommended. |
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by Simon Green This week was Python only unlike when we get Perl as well. As always, the blog is dedicated to Python. Keep it up great work. |
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