From walter at frii.com Thu Oct 26 17:43:54 2000 From: walter at frii.com (Walter Pienciak) Date: Wed Aug 4 23:58:25 2004 Subject: [boulder.pm] www.perl.com: Beginners Guide to Perl (fwd) Message-ID: Hi, Pardon me this one-time-only forward of another Perl mailing list, for the benefit of anyone who needs a nudge to go poke around www.perl.com Walter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:32:14 -0700 From: www.perl.com update To: perl-update@pepper.oreillynet.com Subject: www.perl.com: Beginners Guide to Perl Resent-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:19:43 -0700 Resent-From: perl-update@lists.oreillynet.com www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers Hello, perl.com subscribers. Larry gave his keynote speech at the Atlanta Linux Showcase last week, and spent some time talking about Perl 6. To summarize, Larry is still thinking. He is sorting through the 361 proposals that came out of the RFC phase and dividing them into the good, the bad, and the ugly. Larry's slides are online at http://www.wall.org/~larry/als/talk.html and Nat Torkington's partial transcript of the talk is available at http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-meta%40perl.org/msg00423.html It's only a partial transcript because Nat was on the road last week and had to do the transcript between classes and he was too tired to finish. If someone else want sto finish the transcript and send it to me, I would would be very grateful. The complete MP3 file of the talk is available from http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_stream.html?stream_id=375 *** WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE Simon Cozens has delivered another two weeks' worth of reports from the perl5-porters mailing list. Doug Sheppard has begun a new series of articles that explain Perl for beginners. www.perl.com is a frequent destination for people who are just starting out with Perl, and we hope that these articles will be valuable for those people. http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html Michel Rodriguez, a well-known XML expert, has written an article XML processing as some other languages. I got to meet Michel on the O'Reilly "University of Perl" tour, where he was teaching the XML class, and he is a very sharp fellow. I am sure you will be interested to find out what is wrong with Perl in this regard (or what is wrong with XML) and where Michel thinks that Perl is a good fit for XML development. http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/10/11/perlxml/index.html We also, finally, have a transcript of Larry's State of the Onion speech from last summer's Perl Conference in Monterey. It took a while to track down a tape and get it transcribed, but it's here now for those who missed it or want to refer to it. http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html *** COMING UP More Perl 6 news and more p5p reports. Doug Sheppard will return in two weeks. And we may eventually have an article on the very interesting and useful Class::DBI modules. Thank you all. I will be in touch again next week. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@plover.com I am boycotting Amazon. See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html for details. *** Beginner's Introduction to Perl http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt The first part in a new series that introduces Perl to people who haven't programmed before. If you weren't sure how to get started with Perl, here's your chance! Perl Conference: State of the Onion 2000 http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt Larry Wall's annual report on the state of Perl, from TPC 4.0 (the fourth annual Perl conference) in Monterey in July 2000. In this full length transcript, Larry talks about the need for changes, which has led to the effort to rewrite the language in Perl 6. Programming GNOME Applications with Perl http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/gnome.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt Simon Cozens shows us how to use Perl to develop applications for Gnome, the Unix desktop environment. How Perl Helped Me Win the Office Football Pool http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/footpool.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt Walt Mankowski shows us how he used Perl to make a few extra bucks at the office. Guide to the Perl 6 Working Groups http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/09/perl6mail.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt Perl 6 discussion and planning are continuing at a furious rate and will probably continue to do so, at least until next month when Larry announces the shape of Perl 6 at the Linux Expo. In the meantime, here's a summary of the main Perl 6 working groups and discussion lists, along with an explanation of what the groups are about. Sister Sites: --------------------------------- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com The Source for Open and Emerging Technologies XML.com http://xml.com/ XML from the inside out. O'Reilly and Associates http://www.oreilly.com/ O'Reilly computer books, software and online publishing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, please email the word "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT of the message to perl-update-request@pepper.oreillynet.com. 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