[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #163 - Roadmap/plan for Perl 5?

Sun Sep 7 23:19:02 PDT 2014

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Hi there,

there was a very interesting thread on the Perl 5 Porters mailing list
about the future of Perl. Worth looking at it.

There were also a surprisingly big number of reports about the Swiss Perl
Workshop. (see at the bottom.) I am really glad about it even though I
could not go :-(

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Articles

  Marpa has a new web site
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  .. on the web site of Ron Savage.
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  The art of interviewing programmers, the fizzbuzz test, the white board and other thoughts
  http://bit.ly/1oWTMKd

  Not exactly Perl specific, but Alexis Sukrieh has some good point for the
  interviewers. Of course if you are looking to be employed by a good firm,
  you might also want to read this to see the reasoning behind some of the
  interview questions and processes. For example: Who the hell needs to be
  able to program at a whiteboard?
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Discussion

  Roadmap/plan for Perl 5?
  http://bit.ly/1oWTMKj

  Recently there was a thread on the p5p mailing list discussing the topic.
  I'd suggest reading the whole thread, but if you don't have time, this
  ("http://bit.ly/1oWTOBO") might explain how p5p, the Perl 5 Porters
  currently work. IMHO it would be great to have a centralized place where
  people who actively work on perl core could list their TODO items, break
  them down into smaller steps, and let others, who might have time, to
  join in implementing specific steps needed to accomplish that TODO item.
  A roadmap of many individual roads. Maybe an enhanced (I am not sure in
  what way though) version of the current TODO list
  ("http://bit.ly/1oWTMKh"). Maybe including the names of the people who
  consider each item as their personal goal with links to RT tickets and
  branches where the work already happens.
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Code

  I hate unpacking sub calls with shift
  http://bit.ly/1oWTMKo

  Vytas Dauksa rants about certain ways of parameter unpacking. He hates code
  that uses 'shift' there. Why not use 'pop' too then he argues. The reply
  is not waiting long. Toby Inkster mentions he would use pop if it was
  necessary.
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Web

  Mojolicious: Do It For The Candy!
  http://bit.ly/1oWTMKp

  Joel Berger is extracting 'Ooooh's and 'Aaaah's from onlookers by showing
  off some of the capabilities of Mojolicious: WebSocket, UserAgent, eval,
  testing.
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CPAN

  What's new on CPAN August 2014
  http://bit.ly/1oWTOBY

  The, already traditional monthly round-up of David Farrell listing a number
  of new CPAN modules.
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  What you need to know about CPAN
  http://bit.ly/1oWTN0G

  A skeleton of an article explaining CPAN to users, contributors, and (would
  be) module authors.
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  Planet Moose - August 2014
  http://bit.ly/1oWTN0J

  The monthly collection of Object Oriented news by Toby Inkster.
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  Urging users with good test suites to test-drive latest DBIx::Class trial
  http://bit.ly/1oWTN0S

  This is that time of the year again when Peter Rabbitson (Ribasushi) is
  getting ready for a new release of DBIx::Class and he wants to be sure it
  will work for you! So if you use DBIx::Class in an application, and
  especially if you have good test suite, then this is a very good time to
  test it with the upcoming release candidate.
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  Some MetaCPAN advanced search tricks using prefixes
  http://bit.ly/1oWTOSr

  Do you know how to search for modules with 'Middleware' in their name? How
  to find all the modules that are version 0.01 ? Maybe combine the two?
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Fun

  Instant podcasts, in 50 lines of perl
  http://bit.ly/1oWTOSs

  David Cantrell implements in 50 lines of clean(!) perl what the other
  application does in 1,300 lines of PHP. True, he uses a few CPAN modules,
  but hey, loading them also adds to the line count!
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Grants

  Call for Grant Proposals (September round)
  http://bit.ly/1oWTN0X

  The Perl Foundation is waiting for your grant proposals till 14th
  September.
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Slides

  The Whitespace in the Perl Community
  http://bit.ly/1oWTOSt

  As I understand from other sources, the 'whitespaces' meant by brian d foy
  in his talk are the places where the Perl community has some kind of a
  hole to be filled. For example a module implementing the API of a public
  service. Though I am not sure. I wish I also heard the talk, not just
  seen the slides.
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Windows

  Enlightened Perl Organization sponsors Strawberry Perl
  http://bit.ly/1oWTP8P

  The Strawberry Perl on Windows project requires a build server. It had one
  sponsored in the past 12 months by Auditsquare ("http://bit.ly/1oWTNhc"),
  but for the coming year kmx, the project maintainer has published a call
  to support Strawberry Perl ("http://bit.ly/1oWTP8O"). Mark Keating
  quickly jumped on the call and paid for the server for the next year.
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Weekly collections

  (cxlix) stackoverflow perl report
  http://bit.ly/1oWTNhg

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  (cxxiv) metacpan weekly report - Pry
  http://bit.ly/1oWTP8Q

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Perl Maven Tutorials

  Check several regexes on many strings
  http://bit.ly/1oWTP8R

  What if you a bunch of regexes and you would like to filter the lines of a
  file that match all of there regexes? (article + screencast.)
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Event reports

  My first YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference)
  http://bit.ly/1oWTNhk

  Upasana Shukla went to her first YAPC in Bulgaria. She managed to list the
  names of a lot of people. I wonder what would have happened if she had
  better memory?
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  YAPC::EU 2014
  http://bit.ly/1oWTP92

  Xing was at YAPC EU in Bulgaria Kerstin Puschke reports.
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  Day One At the Swiss Perl Workshop
  http://bit.ly/1oWTNhn

  Report written by byterock.
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  Day Two At the Swiss Perl Workshop
  http://bit.ly/1oWTP93

  Report written by byterock.
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  back from Swiss Perl Workshop 2014
  http://bit.ly/1oWTNhr

  Laurent Dami was skeptical about the Swiss Perl Workshop.
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  Second Swiss Perl Workshop - Perfect Location
  http://bit.ly/1oWTP95

  Tobi Oetiker even took a picture to proove it was fun!
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  A Newbie is Sent in YAPC::ASIA
  http://bit.ly/1oWTPpi

  Pattawan Kaewduangdee went to Tokyo in the Send-A-Newbie program. Here is
  what she saw.
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Events

  Perl-related events
  http://bit.ly/1bkDys0

  In the following cities: Hancock (NY/USA), Itapema (SC/Brasil), Salzburg
  (Austria), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK)
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  YAPC::EU 2015 from 2nd to 4th September
  http://bit.ly/1oWTPpl

  It's almost a year from now, but if you are interested, mark it in your
  calendar now! (Remember, it is in Granada, Spain. Even if you don't care
  about Perl, it's a good excuse.)
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