From mark at purdue.edu  Wed Nov  4 05:10:12 2015
From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn)
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 08:10:12 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] free _Perl Weekly_ and _Modern Perl_
Message-ID: <40294.1446642612@pier.ecn.purdue.edu>

Purdue Perl Mongers,

_Perl Weekly_ is free and reading in my opinion.  You can read it on the
web or get it delivered to your email address.  See
    http://perlweekly.com/
for more informmation.

I got the free _Modern Perl_ ebook mentioned in the latest edition of
_Perl Weekly_ by going to
    https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition
and choosing ebook format, clicking "Add to cart...", etc.  I recommmend
this book.  (I only get ebooks---they save space and make it easier to
check if I have the latest version of the book.)

Here is an excerpt from the latest _Perl Weekly_:
    Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 07:18:11 +0000
    From: Gabor Szabo <gabor at szabgab.com>
    To: perlweekly at perlweekly.com
    Subject: [Perlweekly] #223 - Two perl books in the news!
    
    Perl Weekly=20
    
    http://perlweekly.com/
    
    You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
    http://perlweekly.com/archive/223.html
    
    [... -mark]
    
    Perl 6 is now officially in beta!
    
    [... -mark]
    
    Modern Perl, 4th edition
    https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition
    
    The fourth edition of Modern Perl is now available in print from the
    Pragmatic Bookshelf ( https://pragprog.com ), and also as a free ebook.

Mark Senn

From jacoby.david at gmail.com  Thu Nov 19 11:07:07 2015
From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:07:07 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] So, That Was A Meeting. What Now?
Message-ID: <CAGbe8xorjjjysPj6y9QVXGvLypZYuBmudHD241TmLnqYjFWDdw@mail.gmail.com>

Because Supercomputing 15 was this week, most people I would have expected
to show up at the various tech events this week were in Austin, and many
were doing other things. Which is okay. There was good discussion around my
talk, "HTML Mail...".

Next meeting is either Noon Tue Dec 15 in WSLR or 6pm Wed Dec 16 in
MatchBox. I like the Mongers -> Chat setup (when people bother to show) so
I think I'll go with that, unless we get substantial objection.

(Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)

(Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for December.)

(Note to self: Send notice to Purdue Today.)

I've been considering a talk/blogpost/tweet about using Perl to interesting
things with Twitter info, but I'm not sure. Nobody in Purdue.pm, perhaps
nobody in Greater Lafayette, munges Twitter as much as I do, so I suspect
I'd just bore people to tears, and unlike HTML Mail, I'm not sure I could
do it without showing code, which I'd love but would bore others to tears.
So, I'm open for ideas on the topic.

The release of Perl 6 is announced for before Christmas 2015, so on January
19, we'll be having our Perl 6 release celebration meeting at MatchBox.
Mark will talk a little about Perl 6 but wants other presenters.

(Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)

(Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for January.)

So, if you have great ideas for a talk, please speak up. You don't even
have to be the person who presents it.

-- 
David Jacoby     jacoby.david at gmail.com
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From kenschweickert at gmail.com  Thu Nov 19 20:19:09 2015
From: kenschweickert at gmail.com (Ken Schweickert)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:19:09 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] So, That Was A Meeting. What Now?
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I'm not convinced describing something in code is such a bad thing,
particularly in concise chunks. I used Perl pretty extensively with Twitter
and Gnip APIs. So I wouldn't object to such a talk on grounds of code use
nor subject matter. If I'm not the only one who isn't offended by your
notion ;P I could probably find something interesting to contribute along
side if there's time.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dave Jacoby <jacoby.david at gmail.com> wrote:

> Because Supercomputing 15 was this week, most people I would have expected
> to show up at the various tech events this week were in Austin, and many
> were doing other things. Which is okay. There was good discussion around my
> talk, "HTML Mail...".
>
> Next meeting is either Noon Tue Dec 15 in WSLR or 6pm Wed Dec 16 in
> MatchBox. I like the Mongers -> Chat setup (when people bother to show) so
> I think I'll go with that, unless we get substantial objection.
>
> (Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)
>
> (Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for December.)
>
> (Note to self: Send notice to Purdue Today.)
>
> I've been considering a talk/blogpost/tweet about using Perl to
> interesting things with Twitter info, but I'm not sure. Nobody in
> Purdue.pm, perhaps nobody in Greater Lafayette, munges Twitter as much as I
> do, so I suspect I'd just bore people to tears, and unlike HTML Mail, I'm
> not sure I could do it without showing code, which I'd love but would bore
> others to tears. So, I'm open for ideas on the topic.
>
> The release of Perl 6 is announced for before Christmas 2015, so on
> January 19, we'll be having our Perl 6 release celebration meeting at
> MatchBox. Mark will talk a little about Perl 6 but wants other presenters.
>
> (Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)
>
> (Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for January.)
>
> So, if you have great ideas for a talk, please speak up. You don't even
> have to be the person who presents it.
>
> --
> David Jacoby     jacoby.david at gmail.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Purdue-pm mailing list
> Purdue-pm at pm.org
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From mark at purdue.edu  Fri Nov 20 06:35:49 2015
From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:35:49 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] new release of Perl 6
Message-ID: <44538.1448030149@pier.ecn.purdue.edu>

Purdue Perl Mongers,

I thought I was happy with Perl 5.  Now that I've used Perl 6 I don't
want to use Perl 5 again.  A new development version of Perl 6 has been
released.  The Perl 6 developers hope to release Perl 6 version 1.0
before Christmas.  As anybody who writes software knows, sometimes
unexpected delays happen in software development.  That's why it is
called the "Christmas" instead of Christmas release below.

The Purdue Perl Mongers plans to have a Perl 6 release party at our
regular meeting in January with cake, some swag, etc., along with
the normal talk(s).

Mark Senn



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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 08:43:29 -0500
Subject: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6_compiler, Development Release "Bend"
From: Will Coleda <will at coleda.com>
To: "perl6-compiler at perl.org" <perl6-compiler at perl.org>

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I?m very happy to announce
the November 2015 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #93 ?Bend?. Rakudo is an
implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1] and the Java
Virtual Machine.

This is the final pre-Christmas release of Rakudo Perl 6. It?s the
second release candidate/beta of the compiler for the anticipated 6.0
?Christmas? release.

The ?Christmas? release will occur on or about 17 December 2015,
assuming no critical bugs are found between now and then. Please try
the release, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

The tarball for this release is available from
<http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>.

Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star
distribution[^2] --- it?s announcing a new release of the compiler
only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see
<http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>.

The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each
release named after a Perl Mongers group. This month?s release is
named after the Bend chapter, because we?re nearly around the bend
with the upcoming
Christmas release.

Some of the changes in this release are outlined below:

New in 2015.11:
   + Initial shaped array support
   + \r\n (Carriage Return/LineFeed) is now a single (synthetic) grapheme
   + Unicode support adheres to Unicode Annex #29
   + Unicode quotes are now also allowed in regular expressions
   + Improved newline support with "use newline" and updates to IO::Handle
   + Added List.head, List.tail, List.repeated methods
   + Str.encode now allows :replacement parameter for unencodable sequences
   + Str.split now accepts multiple strings to split on
   + New Range.int-bounds returns first/last value for integer ranges
   + Auto-generated meta-ops vivified by referring to them, instead of executing
   + Illegal assignment of different Numeric values now caught at compile time
   + &nextcallee implemented, which returns the routine that nextsame
would invoke
   + Many speedups

These are only some of the changes in this release. For a more
detailed list, see ?docs/ChangeLog?.

The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on the
design docs, the Perl 6 test suite, MoarVM and the specification.

The following people contributed to this release:

Jonathan Worthington, Elizabeth Mattijsen, Larry Wall, Pawel Murias,
Will "Coke" Coleda, Christian Bartolom?us, Pepe Schwarz, Timo
Paulssen, Tobias Leich, Mike Francis, Nicholas Clark, Dagfinn Ilmari
Manns?ker, Moritz Lenz, Steve Mynott, Jens Rehsack, cygx, Stefan
Seifert, Jimmy Zhuo, Nick Logan, Lucas Buchala, Zoffix Znet, Donald
Hunter, Lloyd Fournier, Ronald Schmidt, Bart Wiegmans, Tomasz
Konojacki, Sterling Hanenkamp, Vladimir Lettiev, Faye Niemeyer,
johnspurr, Tim Smith, Rob Hoelz, grondilu

If you would like to contribute or find out more information, visit
<http://perl6.org>, <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the
<perl6-compiler at perl.org> mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on
freenode.

The next release of Rakudo (#94), is tentatively scheduled for 17
December 2015. Because that release will correspond with the Perl 6
Christmas version of the specification, we may end up delaying the
release to insure the best possible release, but we will release by
the 25th at the latest.

A list of the other planned release dates and code names for future
releases is available in the ?docs/release_guide.pod? file.

The development team appreciates feedback! If you?re using Rakudo, do
get back to us. Questions, comments, suggestions for improvements,
cool discoveries, incredible hacks, or any other feedback -- get in
touch with us through (the above-mentioned) mailing list or IRC
channel. Enjoy!

[^1]: See <http://moarvm.org/>

[^2]: What?s the difference between the Rakudo compiler and the Rakudo
Star distribution?

The Rakudo compiler is a compiler for the Perl 6 language. Not much more.

The Rakudo Star distribution is the Rakudo compiler plus a selection
of useful Perl 6 modules, a module installer, the most recent
incarnation of the ?Using Perl 6? book, and other software that can be
used with the Rakudo compiler to enhance its utility. Rakudo Star is
meant for early adopters who wish to explore what?s possible with
Rakudo Perl 6 and provide feedback on what works, what doesn?t, and
what else they would like to see included in the distribution.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda


From jacoby.david at gmail.com  Fri Nov 20 07:08:53 2015
From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:08:53 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] So, That Was A Meeting. What Now?
In-Reply-To: <CADNpv129y9uv4hzreND-SrN1vMn5yW5Qzf+omguHkVnSkaR1Jw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGbe8xorjjjysPj6y9QVXGvLypZYuBmudHD241TmLnqYjFWDdw@mail.gmail.com>
	<CADNpv129y9uv4hzreND-SrN1vMn5yW5Qzf+omguHkVnSkaR1Jw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAGbe8xrTTn86EMcu89J2ueOEVwpkjMph5kVhxMqFS-WFs7eu4Q@mail.gmail.com>

Good to know, good to hear.

I thought I had most of this stuff in Github anyway, but turns out no, so
I'll get something up and build a talk around it.


On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Ken Schweickert <kenschweickert at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm not convinced describing something in code is such a bad thing,
> particularly in concise chunks. I used Perl pretty extensively with Twitter
> and Gnip APIs. So I wouldn't object to such a talk on grounds of code use
> nor subject matter. If I'm not the only one who isn't offended by your
> notion ;P I could probably find something interesting to contribute along
> side if there's time.
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Dave Jacoby <jacoby.david at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Because Supercomputing 15 was this week, most people I would have
>> expected to show up at the various tech events this week were in Austin,
>> and many were doing other things. Which is okay. There was good discussion
>> around my talk, "HTML Mail...".
>>
>> Next meeting is either Noon Tue Dec 15 in WSLR or 6pm Wed Dec 16 in
>> MatchBox. I like the Mongers -> Chat setup (when people bother to show) so
>> I think I'll go with that, unless we get substantial objection.
>>
>> (Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)
>>
>> (Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for December.)
>>
>> (Note to self: Send notice to Purdue Today.)
>>
>> I've been considering a talk/blogpost/tweet about using Perl to
>> interesting things with Twitter info, but I'm not sure. Nobody in
>> Purdue.pm, perhaps nobody in Greater Lafayette, munges Twitter as much as I
>> do, so I suspect I'd just bore people to tears, and unlike HTML Mail, I'm
>> not sure I could do it without showing code, which I'd love but would bore
>> others to tears. So, I'm open for ideas on the topic.
>>
>> The release of Perl 6 is announced for before Christmas 2015, so on
>> January 19, we'll be having our Perl 6 release celebration meeting at
>> MatchBox. Mark will talk a little about Perl 6 but wants other presenters.
>>
>> (Note to self: Ask Wally or Broc to reserve a room for us.)
>>
>> (Note to self: Un-reserve WSLR 116 for January.)
>>
>> So, if you have great ideas for a talk, please speak up. You don't even
>> have to be the person who presents it.
>>
>> --
>> David Jacoby     jacoby.david at gmail.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Purdue-pm mailing list
>> Purdue-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/purdue-pm
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From jacoby.david at gmail.com  Fri Nov 20 10:44:33 2015
From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:44:33 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Fwd: [perl-108] Larry Wall on Triangulation
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jon Miner <jon at jjminer.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:03 PM
Subject: [perl-108] Larry Wall on Triangulation
To: perl-108 at meetup.com


For anybody else who missed this on Monday...

https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/225?autostart=false

In related news, when Larry has long hair he looks linda like me.

jon

--
Jon Miner

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when I drink margaritas at meetings.
 - Quit Your Job And Move To Key West: The Complete Guide


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