[Kc] New Year's Resolution: Build a Perl 6 Binary

[Andrew Moore]

Here's a copy of the recent "perl.com newsletter" in case you're
interested. They come out occasionally and are pretty good summaries
of what's going on in the perl world.

Don't forget that our January meeting has been moved to Barley's on
Midland. It's still Tuesday at 7pm, though.

-Andy



On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:29:00AM -0800, Perl.com Newsletter wrote:
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> Happy New Year, Perl Newsletter subscribers, depending on the appropriate
> local time and calendar (255 years later, your editor still grumbles
> about the missing eleven days).
> 
> With much of the Western World on hiatus for various end of year events,
> you might think that this is a quiet newsletter. Ha.
> 
> * Perl News
> 
> In between sending relatives to their houses and using the wrong type of
> flour in Ann Barcomb's biscotti recipe, your editor dusted off a piece of
> code he and Jerry Gay wrote a few months back and, well, now check out 
> Parrot from Subversion and type "make perl6:"
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/30/0912211
> 
> Of course, you might want to follow the whole debate on the future of
> Perl as seen on Perlbuzz.
> 
> What people are saying about Perl 5.10:
> 
>   http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/what-people-are-saying-about-perl-510.html
> 
> Where is Perl 6?
> 
>  http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/where-is-perl-6-the-question-that-wont-die.html
> 
> Why Perl 6 needs to be deemphasized and renamed:
> 
>   http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/why-perl-6-needs-to-be-deemphasized-and-renamed.html
> 
> Here's What We've Done in Perl 6:
> 
>   http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/one-view-of-heres-what-weve-done-in-perl-6.html
> 
> Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Perl 6:
> 
>   http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/stop-worrying-and-learn-to-love-perl-6.html
> 
> ... and if you prefer your heated debate over the stupidities of
> so-called journalists (and more on this later!), "Perl Deserves Better":
> 
>   http://perlbuzz.com/2007/12/linux-journal-is-offensive-perl-deserves-better.html
> 
> iTWire provided much better technical journalism with a detailed
> exploration of some of the nice new features of Perl 5.10 (thank you,
> David M. Williams!):
> 
>   http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15936/1141/1/0/
> 
> Simon Cozens -- the perpetuator of the Parrot April Fool's joke, one-time
> Parrot pumpking, and semi-retired programmer -- returned to the birdhouse
> speaking the language of hilarious felines. Along the way, he discovered
> that that crazy project he helped start actually works, and it makes
> writing compilers almost easy:
> 
>   http://blog.simon-cozens.org/post/view/1323
> 
> brian d foy compiled a brief report on statistics for jobs.perl.org:
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/02/0030255
> 
> Alberto Simoes issued a call for TPF grants for the first quarter of
> 2008:
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/1832258
> 
> Adam Kennedy published his roadmap for the future of the Vanilla,
> Strawberry, and Chocolate Perl distributions -- these are Perl bundles 
> for Windows users that include compilers and other tools useful for
> further development:
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/27/1811249
> 
> He also released Strawberry Perl 5.10.0:
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/23/1751224
> 
> Jon Allen updated perldoc.perl.org with the documentation for Perl 5.10:
> 
>   http://perldoc.perl.org/
> 
> Your editor continued to minute the Perl 6 design meetings:
> 
>   http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/35280
> 
> * Perl at O'Reilly
> 
> The previous newsletter mentioned "Memories of 20 Years of Perl;" a
> handful of other Perl hackers have contributed stories. There's still
> room for more. If you'd like to add your memories to the article, please 
> post them as comments or mail them to chromatic at oreilly.com for inclusion,
> along with a one-sentence biography.
> 
>   http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/21/20-years-of-perl.html
> 
> Adriano Ferreira didn't take the fortnight off. He posted several more
> Perl 6 operator explanations, including the cross operator:
> 
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/yap6_operator_the_cross_operat.html
> 
> ... the iterate operator:
> 
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/yap6_operator_iterate_operator.html
> 
> ... reduce operators:
> 
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/yap6_operator_reduce_operators.html
> 
> ... mutating operators:
> 
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/yap6_operator_mutating_operato_1.html
> 
> ... the pair constructor:
> 
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/yap6_operator_the_pair_constru_1.html
> 
> ... more reduction operators:
> 
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/yap6_operator_reduce_operators_1.html
> 
> ... and the filetest "operators:"
> 
>   http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/yap6_operator_filetests.html
> 
> Your editor objected to one particular publication's mangling of the Perl
> 5.10 press release:
> 
>  http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/what_the_xfiles_taught_us_abou.html
> 
> Curtis "Ovid" Poe walked through strategies which he and other BBC
> developers used to reduce the runtime of their test suite by almost an
> order of magnitude:
> 
>  http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/12/improving_test_performance.html
> 
> That wraps up a fortnight in which your editor hopes you had enough
> holiday-appropriate cookies, if that's your thing. Now back to work... or
> maybe a fresh new video game.
> 
> Until next time,
> - c
> chromatic
> editor Perl.com, et al
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