[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #182 - The Perl 6 buzz

Sun Jan 18 22:35:32 PST 2015

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Hi,

There's definitely a growing buzz around Perl 6, as we get closer to
Larry's talk at FOSDEM on 1st Feb, with a great-looking Perl (5 and 6)
line-up the day before.

357 people have signed up for the CPAN pull request challenge. Thank you to
all the CPAN authors who are being so helpful and supportive towards the PR
crew, many of whom are working on their first-ever pull request.

Editor #3, Neil

Advocacy

  Perl Already Won
  http://programming.tudorconstantin.com/2015/01/perl-already-won.html

  An impassioned support of Perl from Tudor, in response to the Why Perl
  Didn't Win
  ("http://outspeaking.com/words-of-technology/why-perl-didnt-win.html")
  post from August last year. Tudor explains why Perl works for him. And
  that's what it comes down to I think: we're all wired differently, and
  some programming languages match our wiring better than others. YMMV.
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CPAN News

  NICEPERL's lists
  http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/vii-cpan-great-modules-released-last.html

  Miguel Prz (NICEPERL ("https://metacpan.org/author/NICEPERL"))'s regular
  lists: Great modules released last week
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/xi-cpan-great-modules-released-l
  ast-week.html"); MetaCPAN weekly report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/cxliii-metacpan-weekly-report-cp
  anmini.html"); StackOverflow Perl report
  ("http://niceperl.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/clxviii-stackoverflow-perl-repor
  t.html").
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  The best of what's new on CPAN 2014
  http://perltricks.com/article/145/2015/1/15/The-best-of-what-s-new-on-CPAN-2014

  David picks his favourite new modules from 2014's monthly posts of best new
  modules.
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  More details on the CPAN Pull Request Challenge
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2015/01/more-details-on-the-cpan-pull-request-challenge.html

  A summary of the challenge, how it will work, and information for CPAN
  authors and participants of the challenge. It's not too late to sign up!
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Hacking and blogging

  Kiss Kiss Shebang Shebang
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/buddy_burden/2015/01/kiss-kiss-shebang-shebang.html

  A long rumination (this is Buddy, after all) on the #! line in your
  scripts, doing it portably, and pulling in the right versions of things.
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  FindBin is fixed
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/tinita/2015/01/findbin-is-fixed.html

  Following on from a comment made in Buddy's article (above), Tina pointed
  out that a key bug
  ("https://rt.perl.org//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=89698") in FindBin
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/FindBin") was fixed in Perl 5.16, so make sure
  you're running a recent enough version of FindBin.
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  How I Post Code
  http://varlogrant.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/how-i-post-code.html

  There are lots of different ways to show code samples in a blog post.
  Dave's current standard is to put the code in a gist, then embed that in
  the blog post, even if it does require Javascript to be enabled in the
  reader's browser. What's your preferred approach?
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  Picture-of-the-day helper script
  http://domm.plix.at/perl/2015_01_potd_helper_script.html

  Thomas is trying to shoot at least one photo a day, posting it to his blog
  and twitter. Here he walks us through the code he's written to automate
  as much of his process as possible.
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Perl 6

  How to create a grammar in Perl 6
  http://perltricks.com/article/144/2015/1/13/How-to-create-a-grammar-in-Perl-6

  David shows how to use grammars in Perl 6, building one to parse valid
  module names.
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  Introduction to Perl 6 using REPL: scalars
  http://perl6maven.com/introduction-to-perl6-screencast-scalars

  Gabor's Perl 6 odyssey continues, demonstrating working with scalars. I can
  never remember what REPL stands for, so I googled it (again!) for you:
  Read-Eval-Print-Loop. It's just an interactive shell.
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Conventions

  What should be in a CPAN distro README?
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2015/01/what-should-be-in-a-cpan-distro-readme.html

  brian wonders whether README files are still needed these days, and if so,
  what should be in them? There are several conventions on CPAN, some dists
  just have a copy of the main module's doc, others have a summary, and yet
  others have installation instructions. Add your thoughts in the comments
  (if you can!).
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  Marking a distribution as deprecated
  http://neilb.org/2015/01/17/deprecated-metadata.html

  Details of a new unofficial metadata field for marking a distribution as
  deprecated. Here 'unofficial' means it's not defined by CPAN::Meta::Spec
  ("https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Meta::Spec").
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Language

  Don't use named lexical subroutines
  http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2015/01/named-lexical-subroutines/

  brian walks through the concepts of lexical and package variables, and then
  for subs. All this is a lead-in to him presenting a number of problems
  with named lexical subs (aka 'my subs').
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Grants

  Ado - a rapid active commotion (framework for web-projects on Mojolicious)
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2015/01/grant-proposal-ado---a-rapid-a.html

  Krasimir has put in a grant proposal for $4500 to greatly expand the
  existing Ado ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Ado") web framework, which is
  built on top of Mojolicious ("https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojolicious"). If
  you have any thoughts on this, the Perl Foundation is keen to hear them.
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Conferences and Meetups

  Perl track at FOSDEM
  https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/track/perl/

  The schedule for the Perl track at FOSDEM has been published. It's on
  Saturday 31st January, and has a cracking lineup of subjects and
  speakers! Larry's talk on Perl 6
  ("https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/get_ready_to_party/") has now
  been moved to the Sunday at 1pm.
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  AmsterdamX tech talks 20th Jan
  http://amsterdamx.pm.org

  This Tuesday (20th) AmsterdamX.pm have four tech talks from Stevan Little,
  Borislav Nikolov, Mickey Nasriachi, and Sawyer X. At least two of them
  are about Perl.
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Not Perl, but may be of interest

  What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
  http://www.paulgraham.com/work.html

  A short essay from Paul, with a key insight: "If something that seems like
  work to other people doesn't seem like work to you, that's something
  you're well suited for. For example, a lot of programmers I know,
  including me, actually like debugging. [...] The stranger your tastes
  seem to other people, the stronger evidence they probably are of what you
  should do."
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  Business Models for Open Source Content
  http://szabgab.com/business-models-for-open-source-content.html

  Gabor looks at some of the most successful sites that have a money-making
  business based off open content.
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  The Power of Ten - Rules for Developing Safety Critical Code
  http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pdf

  NASA's 10 development guidelines for safety-critical code, a number of
  which are widely applicable. Many of the points could be mapped to Perl;
  e.g. point 10 would become "always use strict and warnings" :-)
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Perl Maven Tutorials

  The magic unary plus (+)
  http://perlmaven.com/the-magic-unary-plus

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  Welcome and Installation
  http://perlmaven.com/beginner-perl-maven-installation

  The beginning of an old, and slightly noisy recording of the Perl Maven
  Video course.
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