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Issue #721 - 2025-05-19 - Perl Roadmap
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Hi Two weeks ago I asked How do you deal with the decline in Perl-related jobs? and I received quite a few nice comments. Thank you! I'll have another question today. Yesterday I asked in a Web 3 group how to get started with Web3, Blockchain, cryptocurrency, Ethereum.... I got a few suggestions including a link to the Blockchain Roadmap. So I checked. There is also a Python Roadmap and a Rust roadmap, but I have not found a Perl Roadmap. Not even a community created one. IMHO, if you are interested in making Perl easier to learn, more available and hopefully more popular than you might want to invest some time to create a community roadmap for Perl and maybe even to get it listed as an official roadmap. Which brings me to my question this week What could be done to make Perl more popular?. I'd appreciate your comments there. On a totally different subject. I think this might be a good time to mention that if you find my work valuable to you, I'd appreciate if you could also express it by sponsoring me. GitHub provides a way to make it very easy to give 5-10-20 USD / month to express your gratitude and help me invest more time in the public work. Go to my GitHub sponsors page and sign up to sponsor me! Enjoy your week! Gabor Szabo |
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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 Rawley Fowler SlapbirdAPM is a free and open-source application performance monitoring (APM) platform specifically designed for Perl web applications. |
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by Dave Cross (DAVECROSS) Dave is using ChatGPT to build small tools. It is like having a superpowered pair programmer. | 
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by Paul Cochrane (PTC) A real tram network is more like a web of interconnecting lines. Although more lines mean more complexity, they allow Map::Tube to better reflect reality and thus be more useful and interesting. |
Discussion
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by Philippe Bruhat (BOOK) Cast (in order of appearance): Philippe Bruhat, Olaf Alders, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Neil Bowers, Jesse Vincent, Ricardo Signes. Visit the Web site of the podcast. | 
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The Weekly Challenge
The Weekly Challenge by Mohammad Sajid Anwar will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one champion at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month, thanks to the sponsor Lance Wicks.
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by Mohammad Sajid Anwar (MANWAR) Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Format String" and "Rank Array". 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 "Distinct Average" and "Backspace Compare" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy. |
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by Adam Russell Clever non-regex approach, very impressive and not to be skipped. Keep it up great work. | 
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by Ali Moradi As always, this week too we have a compact and cute little magic. I simply love it, keep sharing. |
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by Arne Sommer Raku regex is special and very handy to create one-liner. Incredible. |
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by Bob Lied A very real life narration with dose of technical excellence, highly recommended. |
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by Dave Jacoby (JACOBY) Perl regex magic in a while loop condition. Take a closer look to see the real power, great work. | 
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by Jaldhar H. Vyas Always interesting to see how to deal with hurdles and go around to solve the issue. Well done and keep it up. |
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by Jorg Sommrey PDL, my personal favourite, is showing the elegance. Thanks for sharing knowledge with us. |
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by Luca Ferrari Finally, we have a complete set of solutions in Raku, Python, Java and PostgreSQL. Thank you for the contributions. |
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by W Luis Mochan Perl one-liner with the help of CPAN module solving the challenge elegantly. Great work. |
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by Matthias Muth Clever use of regex construct in loop. Brilliant work, thanks for sharing. |
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by Packy Anderson (PACKY) I like how Bag is used here, a very powerful feature of Raku. Any Raku fans, looking for real code then this is the place. |
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by Peter Campbell Smith A very smart move to avoid finding average. DIY to play with it. |
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by Robbie Hatley Nice to see the use of substr() in the mix. It was a smart move. Thanks for sharing. |
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by Roger Bell West (FIREDRAKE) The post just picks two stories, Perl and Rust. You need to look further for more magics. Highly recommended. |
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by Simon Green Happy to read about floating point issue being discussed. Good to see Perl and Python coming together. |
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