[Omaha.pm] perl.com newsletter - check out Parrot from Subversion and type "make perl6:"

[Jay Hannah]

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.

j



Perl.com update
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The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers

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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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