[Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #327 - The Quest for a 100-Year Programming Language

Mon Oct 30 01:58:27 PDT 2017

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Hi there!

plenty of interesting stufff this week:

an interview with Larry Wall, Call For Participation for the German Perl
Worksop, and Call For Cakes at the London Perl Workshop.

I am also running a new survey. This time about Continuous Integration.
Fill it out ( https://code-maven.com/continuous-integration-systems )!

Enjoy your week!

  --
  Your editor: Gabor Szabo.

Interview

  Larry Wall's Quest for a 100-Year Programming Language
  https://thenewstack.io/larry-walls-quest-100-year-programming-language/

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Articles

  Tracing Perl memory leaks with Devel::MAT, part 2
  https://tech.binary.com/tracing-perl-memory-leaks-with-devel-mat-part-2/

  A very detailed explanation on how to use Devel::MAT to find a memory leak
  in Mojo::Redis2. If the terminology in the article is unfamiliar, don't
  worry in the first part of the series (
  https://tech.binary.com/tracing-perl-memory-leaks-with-devel-mat/ ) Paul
  explained those.
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  Monitoring my phone's internet activity with DD-WRT and Perl
  http://perltricks.com/article/monitoring-my-phone-s-internet-activity-with-netflows-and-perl/

  'Unusual traffic from your computer network' when using Samsung Galaxy S8.
  But what is it?
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  Split retaining the separator or parts of it in Perl
  http://perlmaven.com/split-retaining-the-separator

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Code

  Perl string concatenation and repetition
  http://blog.geekuni.com/2017/10/perl-string-concatenation-and-repetition.html

  Remember that 'x' is different to '*' and lists are different to arrays,
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  Perl get hardware/OS data without non-standard modules
  https://gist.github.com/aras-p/47e2252d6b1fa57d3619fd8e021690ec

  Let the code speak.
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CPAN

  Purge your old releases from CPAN! 
  http://neilb.org/2017/10/27/purge-your-old-releases.html

  That will free up space on the CPAN server and on the hundreds of mirrors
  while the old versions will live forever on BackPAN.
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Grants

  Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): Grant Report for September 2017
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/10/maintaining-perl-5-tony-cook-g-3.html

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  Grant Update: Test2 Manual by Chad Granum
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/10/grant-update-test2-manual-by-c.html

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Perl 6

  Main Development Branch Renamed from 'nom' to 'master'
  http://rakudo.org/2017/10/27/main-development-branch-renamed-from-nom-to-master/

  In case you were following the development of Rakudo, the most advanced
  implementation of Perl 6, you know they used an unusually-named main
  development branch called 'nom'. That was now switched to 'master' to
  align with the default expectation.
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  Rakudo Perl 6 Advent Calendar 2017 Call for Authors
  https://rakudo.party/post/Rakudo-Perl-6-Advent-Calendar-2017--Call-for-Authors

  It is still more than a month away, but it is time to start working on the
  articles to continue the tradition started in 2009.
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  Perl6 should be renamed Perl++
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/vstemen/2017/10/perl6-should-be-renamed-perlplusplus.html

  We haven't had a thread about renaming Perl 6 for quite some time. Here are
  the reactions at Reddit Perl 6 (
  https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/78txh8/xpost_perl6_should_be_rena
  med_perl/ ) and Reddit Perl (
  https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/78lx3g/perl6_should_be_renamed_per
  l/ )
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  Perl 6 weekly: Hyper lands, racing…
  https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/2017-43-hyper-lands-racing/

  The usual set of beauty and fun!
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Surveys

  The 3 most important Programming languages to you
  https://code-maven.com/3-most-important-programming-languages

  The results of the survey from last week.
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  Continuous Integration Systems
  https://code-maven.com/continuous-integration-systems

  New survey
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Weekly collections

  NICEPERL's lists
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/

  Great modules released last week (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/clvi-cpan-great-modules-released-las
  t.html );
  MetaCPAN weekly report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/cclxxxviii-metacpan-weekly-report.ht
  ml );
  StackOverflow Perl report (
  http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/cccxii-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm
  l ).
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Event reports

  2017 Perl 5 Core Hackathon Held in Amsterdam October 12-15
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_e_keenan/2017/10/2017-perl-5-core-hackathon-held-in-amsterdam-october-12-15.html

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Events

  Call for Organizers - TPCNA::2018
  http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/10/call-for-organizers-tpcna2018.html

  The Perl Conference Organizing Committee for the 2018 NEEDS your help!
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  Barcelona Perl & Friends: Saturday 4 Nov 2017
  http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_e_keenan/2017/10/barcelona-perl-friends-saturday-4-nov-2017.html

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  Community Cakes for the London Perl Workshop? 
  http://neilb.org/2017/10/29/community-cakes-lpw-2017.html

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  German Perl-Workshop 2018 - Call for Participation
  http://act.yapc.eu/gpw2018/news/1527

  Between 4-6 April 2017 in Bergisch Gladbach, 15 km from Cologne/Köln.
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  Do you love customers? Senior Perl Developer with a product focus, London
  https://perl.careers/jobs/do-you-love-customers-senior-perl-developer-with-a-product-focus-london/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly

  Ever find yourself wishing you could see meaningful impact on users from
  your work? Trapped in a company with long release cycles and dubious
  release dates? Wish your ideas for product improvement didn’t keep
  disappearing in to the Project Manager’s backlog?
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  Largest Perl team in London with beautiful Docklands offices
  https://perl.careers/jobs/largest-perl-team-in-london-with-beautiful-docklands-offices/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly

  Large, dynamic Perl team in Canary Wharf looking for mid-level and senior
  developers. Run by a Perl-loving CTO in beautiful offices with a great
  view over Canary Wharf, the company manages one legacy Perl codebase and
  a whole bunch of very new, very shiny, and very modern codebases that
  power the market-leading solution in their particular area. Free
  breakfast, too, for some values of breakfast.
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  Perl mentor needed for large and growing team - train the next generation of Perl developers in London
  https://perl.careers/jobs/perl-mentor-needed-for-large-and-growing-team---train-the-next-generation-of-perl-developers-in-london/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly

  Do you have some great Perl war stories? Can you help guide and grow the
  experience of junior Perl developers? Never get tired of explaining what
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