[oak perl] Fwd: Promoting Modern Perl

[George Woolley]

hi all, 
there were several urls in the fowarded message
that interested me,
so i'm forwarding the message to the list.
george

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Subject: Promoting Modern Perl
Date: Tuesday 13 May 2008 09:46
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Onward to the 100th Perl conference!
Philippe Bruhat discovered that there have been nearly one hundred
grassroots Perl conferences:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/29/0512200

One Thousand Perl Mongers
... and Jose Castro revealed that there are a thousand Perl Mongers
on LinkedIn:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/30/0558209

2008Q2 Grant Proposals
The Perl Foundation has published its list of 2008 Q2 grant
proposals.  The grants committee welcomes comments on the proposals
before voting begins. (There are plenty of great proposals this
time):
http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposals.html

Perl must decentralize, diversify and colonize
Andy Lester thinks that the centralization model of Perl is
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YAPC::Asia 2008
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YAPC::NA
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Journal of LaPerla
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http://use.perl.org/~LaPerla/journal/36320

This Fortnight on perl5-porters
David Landgren summarized the activities on Perl 5 Porters:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/03/1033231

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 23 April 2008
Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/36241

Perl 6 Design Minutes for 07 May 2008
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/36363

* Perl at O'Reilly

Pre-order Learning Perl, Fifth Edition
The new edition of Learning Perl will be out before OSCON 2008.
This edition covers new features in Perl 5.10.  Point your next
novice there:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/01/169214

Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10
Perl 5.10 is still shiny and new in the world of Perl 5.
Unfortunately, Perl's popularity on the Internet over the past
twenty years means that there's a lot of documentation and there
are plenty of tutorials that don't teach new users how to take
advantage of modern Perl.  Your editor is attempting to rectify
that situation by updating Perl.com's popular "Beginner's
Introduction to Perl" series for 5.10.  Here's how to use files
and strings in modern Perl:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2008/05/07/beginners-introduction-to-perl-510-part-
2.html

Parrot Compiler Toolkit
Your editor also recommends Patrick Michaud's recent presentation
on building compilers with Parrot:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/patrick_michaud_on_the_parrot.h
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