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Issue #720 - 2025-05-12 - GPW 2025
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Hi there, Today marks the start of the German Perl/Raku Workshop 2025, taking place in Munich from May 12-14, 2025. This three-day event promises to be packed with insightful sessions. You can checkout the schedules for Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. I noticed several familiar names from the recently concluded PTS 2025, including Salve J. Nilsen, Ference Erki and Julien Fiegehenn. There are also regular attendees like Mark Overmeer, Nicholas Clark, Max Maischein, Lee Johnson, Renee Backer and Soren Laird Sorries. However, one notable absence is Thomas Klausner. Looking at the schedule, it's shaping up to be a highly impactful event. And yes, R Geoffrey Avery, the Gong man, is also listed as the Lightning Talks manager. As many of you know the PTS 2025, wrapped up just a week ago and we've already seen plenty of event reports from the participants. This was my first time attending the Perl Toolchain Summit, and I'm grateful to the organisers for the opportunity. While I've been to many Perl Conferences, PTS was a completely different experience altogether. The setting allowed for more frequent interaction with attendees, making it easier to seek (and receive) instant help. The knowledge sharing was at its peak, especially with people like Paul Evans in the room. Some participants like Neil Bowers and Leo Lapworth joined remotely via video conference. I wasn't fully prepared as my invitation came at the last minute. In contrast, most attendees had everything well planned. I observed structured groups focusing on specific tasks e.g. MetaCPAN, CPAN Security, CPAN Testers, PAUSE. I was free to join any. I chose MetaCPAN both because it's close to my heart and because of Olaf Alders. Admittedly, I didn't have my laptop set up for contributions initially. But thanks to the PTS environment, I had a working local MetaCPAN web instance, in no time. You can read more about my experience in my detailed event report. Other attendees like Thibault Duponchelle, Paul Johnson, Tina Muller, Leon Timmermans, also shared their insights. Enjoy rest of the newsletter. Mohammad Sajid Anwar |
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Perl Toolchain Summit 2025
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Announcements
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by Brett Estrade (OODLER) This is a hybrid (in-person and virtual) conference being held in Austin, TX on July 3rd-4th. | 
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Articles
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by Paul Cochrane (PTC) Continue with the blog series, in this post dealing with complexity of multilines routing. |
Grants
CPAN
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Real issue and instance help using Perl. The solution is now released to CPAN. | 
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Another problem, once again Perl is the saviour, the end result is a CPAN module. |
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The Weekly Challenge
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Distinct Average" and "Backspace Compare". 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 "Maximum Count" and "Sum Difference" 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 pack/unpack to get the digit sum. Incredible, you really don't want to skip it. Great work. | 
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by Ali Moradi Nice use of CPAN module to get compact solution. keep it up great work and thanks for sharing knowledge with us. |
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by Arne Sommer Method chaining in Raku is one of the coolest feature. You also get reference to official document. Well done. |
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Raku one-liner is showing the true color. A must for all Raku fans. |
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by Jorg Sommrey Pure mathematical approach with the help of PDL, highly recommended. |
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by Luca Ferrari Raku only this time with blog post. Missing Python, Java and PostgreSQL version. Thank you for the contributions. |
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by W Luis Mochan In-house Perl one-liner expert showing the magic. PLease do checkout the post. |
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by Matthias Muth Nice to know different approaches to reach the final goal. Benchmark is always handy in the end. Great work. |
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by Packy Anderson (PACKY) Emotional touch to this week blog post. I can completely relate to it. Stay strong my friend. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith Clever use of eval to get the expected result. Don't forget to try DRY tool. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) Nice to see the new language Yypst getting the limelight. I got PostScript, my favourite as bonus. |
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by Simon Green Thanks for sharing Perl too this week. I don't mind blog focus on Python only. Keep it up great work. |
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