From jacoby.david at gmail.com  Mon Nov  7 10:37:32 2016
From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 13:37:32 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] November Meeting: Nov 9
Message-ID: <CAGbe8xrGu5N3_SZ+OihuKDFz7Ojik4pPUSVdtdDSc6g=tM206w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, All.

Wednesday, beyond being (hopefully) the end of this election cycle, is the
next meeting of Purdue Perl Mongers. Michael Gribskov has volunteered to
present. I still have no knowledge about the topic, however, and know that
this has been a very busy semester for him.

Should he prove unavailable, I have some code I can talk about dealing with
graphs and Djikstra's algorithm, or maybe Joe can talk more about character
generation with Javascript or something.

December's topic IS CONFIRMED to be Starship Mongers -- "Everybody Talks,
No One Quits" on December 14th. Both are in EE 317, and both are followed
by HackLafayette Open Source Food & Chat at Lafayette Brewing Company.

And, if you have an idea for Jan 11, please, let us get this set up early.

-- 
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From jacoby.david at gmail.com  Tue Nov  8 11:59:39 2016
From: jacoby.david at gmail.com (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 14:59:39 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Purdue Perl Mongers - Quick Update
Message-ID: <CAGbe8xqVN9O1fqg+sAi5VWA58ydaKtWz0X-54BS+yur0+Z0E9g@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Gribskov had to bow out, so I will present something like "Graphs:
Not As Scary As You Think".

(If you think that sounds kinda ad hoc, you're right.)

5:30pm Wednesday, immediately followed by HackLafayette Open Source Food &
Beer & Chat. See you then!

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From mark at purdue.edu  Tue Nov 29 12:44:37 2016
From: mark at purdue.edu (Mark Senn)
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:44:37 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] new Perl 6 is out
Message-ID: <22836.1480452277@pier.ecn.purdue.edu>

Purdue Perl Mongers,

A new release of Rakudo Star is out.  Seems to work fine and
much faster than the Rakudo Star software released last month.
To install the software on Linux I (this is from memory, if
you have problems let me know)
     1)  downloaded it
     2)  cd Downloads
     3)  gunzip rakudo-star-2016.11.tar.gz
     4)  mv -i rakudo-star-2016.11.tar ~/src
     5)  cd ~/src
     6)  tar xf rakudo-star-2016.11.tar
     7)  cd rakudo-star-2016.11
     8)  make
     9)  make test   (I ignored errors)
    10)  make install
    11)  changed the first line of a program I run weekly to
             #!/home/pier/e/mark/src/rakudo-star-2016.11/install/bin/perl6
         which is appropriate for how I have things set up

(Aside: Brain teaser:
    1
    11
    21
    1211
    1231
Hint: read each line slowly, using words for each digit.)

Perl 5 was nice.  I like Perl 6 much better.  Perl 6 doesn't have all
the modules that Perl 5 yet, but for me Perl 6 is a big improvement.
The new Perl 6 software announcement follows.

From: Steve Mynott <steve.mynott at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:56:51 +0000
Subject: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.11
To: perl6-users <perl6-users at perl.org>,
        perl6-compiler
 <perl6-compiler at perl.org>,
        Perl6 <perl6-language at perl.org>

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to
announce the November 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2016
release is available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>.

This is the fifth post-Christmas (production) release of Rakudo Star and
implements Perl v6.c. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend (all
module tests pass on supported platforms).

Please note that this release of Rakudo Star is not fully functional with
the JVM backend from the Rakudo compiler. Please use the MoarVM backend
only.

In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl
6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl".
This Star release includes [release 2016.11] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler],
version 2016.11 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and
other resources collected from the Perl 6 community.

The changes in this release are outlined below:

New in 2016.11:

 + Fixes:
    + Various improvements to warning/error-reporting
    + Fixed assigning values to shaped arrays through iterators [839c762]
    + Fixed Str.Int not failing on numerics with combining characters [d540=
fc8]
    + [JVM] Fixed <a b c>.antipairs breakage [dd7b055]
    + defined routine now correctly authothreads with Junctions [189cb23]
    + Fixed poor randomness when .pick()ing on ranges with >32-bit
numbers [34e515d]
    + Fixed infix:<x> silencing Failures [2dd0ddb]
    + Fixed edge case in is-approx that triggers DivByZero exception [f7770ed]
    + (Windows) Fixed returning of an error even when succeeding in
mkdir [208a4c2]
    + (Windows) Fixed precomp unable to rename a newly compiled file [44a4c75]
    + (Test.pm) Fixed indent of multi-line diag() and test failure
messages [43dbc96]
    + Fixed a callframe crash due to boxing of NULL filenames [200364a]
    + =E2=88=9E =E2=89=85 =E2=88=9E now gives True [4f3681b]
    + Fixed oversharing with grammars used by multiple threads [7a456ff]
    + Fixed incorrect calculations performed by acotan(num) [8e9fd0a]
    + Fixed incorrect calculations performed by asinh(num)/acosh(num) [a7e801f]
    + Fixed acosh return values for large negative numbers [5fe8cf7]
    + asinh(-=E2=88=9E) now returns -=E2=88=9E instead of NaN [74d0e36]
    + atanh(1) now returns =E2=88=9E instead of throwing [906719c][66726e8]
    + Fixed missing close in IO::Path.slurp(:bin) [697a0ae]
    + :U QuantHashes now auto-vivify to their correct type and not
Hash [79bb867]
    + Mix/MixHash.Bag/BagHash coersion now ignores negative weights [87bba04]
    + arity-0 infix:<Z> now returns a Seq instead of a List [3fdae43]
    + Fix augment of a nested package [87880ca]
    + Smartmatch with Regex variable now returns a Match instead of
Bool [5ac593e]
    + Empty ()[0] now returns Nil instead of False [f50e39b]
    + Failed IO::Socket::Async connection no longer produces
unexpected crash [f50e39b]
    + Quitting Supplies with no QUIT phasers no longer unexpectedly
crash [f50e39b]
    + Fixed NativeCall issues on big endian machines [627a77e]
    + Fixed broken handling of $/ in some uses of `.match` [ba152bd]
    + Fixed Lock.protect not releasing the lock on control exceptions [48c2af6]
    + MoarVM now builds on any version of macOS [b4dfed2]
    + Fixed concurrency crashes due to garbage collection [6dc5074]
    + Fixed race condition in EmptyIterator [ed2631c]
    + Fixed hang with multi-threaded long-running NativeCall calls [f99d958]
    + Made my @a[10] =3D ^Inf work [aedb8e7]
    + Fixed [;]:delete [3b9c4c9]
    + Fixed incorrect handling of negative weights in =E2=88=AA operator
[e10f767]
    + duckmap now preserves types of Iterables [43cb55f]
    + Fixed premature overflow to Inf with large Num literals [729d7e3]
    + Fixed race condition in NativeCall callsite used by multiple
threads [49fd825]
    + Fixed instabilities in programs launching many threads at
startup [0134132]
    + Fixed crash when reporting X::Composition::NotComposable or
        X::Inheritance::Unsupported exceptions [a822bcf]
    + Fixed clock\_gettime issue on macOS [ee8ae92]
    + Fixed SEGV in multi-threaded programs with strings-as-strands [395f369]
    + `regex` TOP Grammar rule will now backtrack if needed [4ccb2f3]
    + Fixed .rotate/.reverse on 1-dimmed arrays assigning to self [2d56751]
    + Fixed exponentiation involving zeros for Complex numbers [7f32243]
    + Fixed Label.gist [29db214][53d7b72]
    + Fixed certain edge cases of incorrect stringification of Rationals
        with .Str, .perl, and .base [b5aa3c5]

 + Additions:
    + Added TWEAK submethod for object construction [fdc90a2][9409d68]
    + Added DateTime.hh-mm-ss [bf51eca]
    + Added parse-base routine [7e21a24]
    + is-approx with no explicit tolerances now uses more complex algorithm to
        choose a tolerance to use (same as old is\_approx) [82432a4]
    + on failure, is-approx now displays actual values received [b4fe680]
    + Added Iterator.skip-one to skip a single value [71a01e9]
    + Added Iterator.skip-at-least to skip several values [8d357af]
    + Re-imagined Str.match [b7201a8]:
        + the family of :nth is now lazy will return whatever can find
        + non-monotonically increasing :nth iterator values will now die
    + Str.match/subst/subst-mutate now have :as adverb
[1b95636][c9a24d9][aaec517]
    + &infix:<eqv> now works with Setty objects [d92e1ad]
    + :ov and :ex adverbs are now illegal in Str.subst [b90c741]
    + Made nextwith/samewith/nextsame/callwith to be real subroutines [70a367d]
    + Added CX::Emit and CX::Done control exceptions [07eeea8]
    + Setty.Mix/.MixHash coercers now use Int weights instead of Bool [7ba7eb4]
    + Implemented :kv,:p,:k,:v on 1-element multidim [;] [764cfcd]
    + .chrs can now also accepts codepoint numbers as Str [4ae3f23]
    + Added support for compilation of Rakudo on Solaris [a43b0c1]
    + IterationEnd.perl/gist/Str now returns text "IterationEnd" [59bb1b1]
    + Added X::Syntax::Number::InvalidCharacter exception [2faa55b]
    + .reverse/rotate on 1-dimmed arrays are now nodal [cd765e6]
    + .line and .file on core Code now references original source
files [b068e3a]
    + .rethrow now works on unthrown exceptions [58a4826]
    + All Reals now accept `Whatever` as the second argument to
.base() [c1d2599]
    + sub MAIN usage message shows possible Enum values if param is
        named and is an Enum [a3be654]

 + Efficiency:
    + Made slip(@a) about 1.2x faster [37d0e46]
    + Made initialization of 2+dimmed array 10x to 16x faster [dfb58d4]
    + Str.match is now about 5% faster [4fc17df]
    + Str.match with :nth feature is now about 2x faster [41e2572]
    + my @a = Str.match(...) is now about 5% faster [e472420]
    + Str.comb(Regex) is now about 7x faster [1794328]
    + Simple Str.subst/subst-mutate is now about 30% faster [364e67b]
    + Match.Str|prematch|postmatch is now about 2x faster [e65d931]
    + Match.Bool is now about 1% faster (not much, but used a lot) [1fce095]
    + Made ~~ /foo/ faster: 2% for successful/6% for failed matches [05b65d0]
    + Made <foo bar baz> ~~ /foo/ about 2x faster [e4dc8b6]
    + Made %h ~~ /foo/ about 2x faster [33eeb32]
    + Frequent accesses of multiple adverbs (e.g. %h<a>:p:exists)
        is now 2x faster [f22f894]
    + Made infix:<eqv> faster: Str: 14x, type: 10x, Range: 3.5x,
        Int|Seq|Hash: 1.5x, Array: 1.2x [bc7fcc6]
    + IO::Spec::Unix.canonpath is now 7x to 50x faster [f3f00fb]
    + Baggy.roll/pick is now about 10% faster [fc47bbf]
    + Made copying shaped arrays 10x to 20x faster [a1d8e93][0cf7b36][d27ecfa]
    + Made setting up a shaped array 2x as fast [f06e4c3]
    + Made creation of typed shaped arrays 15% faster [f5bf6c1]
    + Made 2d/3d array accesses about 7x as fast [d3a0907]
    + Made AT-POS on 1,2,3dim arrays about 20x faster [feb7bcb]
    + Made creating a shaped array about 50% faster [1293188][576f3a1]
    + Made .AT-POS on 3+ dimmed arrays 20% faster [1bb5aad]
    + Made over-indexed .AT-POS on 1,2,3 dimmed arrays about 10%
faster [1bb5aad]
    + Made multi-dimmed ASSIGN-POS about 30% faster [5b2bdeb]
    + Made .ASSIGN-POS for 1,2,3dimmed arrays about 40x faster [050cf72]
    + Made n-dimmed .EXISTS-POS about 1.5x faster [006f008]
    + Made .EXISTS-POS for 1,2,3dimmed arrays about 10x faster [b1c41b7]
    + Made n-dimmed DELETE-POS about 1.3x faster [6ccecb1]
    + Made .DELETE-POS for 1,2,3dimmed arrays about 20x faster [55b9e90]
    + Made n-dimmed BIND-POS about 1.3x faster [2827edb]
    + Made .BIND-POS for 1,2,3dimmed arrays about 20x faster [9f94525]
    + Made @a[10].STORE at least as fast as @a.STORE [8064ff1]
    + Made .kv on shaped Arrays about 4x faster [e42b68e]
    + Made .pairs/.antipairs on shaped Arrays about 2.8x faster
[0f2566a][f608a33]
    + Made List.kv about 30% faster [7a2baf4]
    + for loops on 1-dimmed arrays are now 3x faster [ed36e60]
    + .kv on 1-dimmed arrays is now 7x faster [608de26]
    + .pairs/.antipairs on 1-dimmed arrays is now 3x faster [b7d9537][1c425f9]
    + postcircumfix[;] on 2/3 dimmed arrays is now 9x faster [0b97362]
    + Assignment to [;] for 2/3 dimmed arrays is now 10x faster [ce85ba3]
    + [;]:exists for 2/3 dimmed arrays is now 7x faster [e3e3fef]
    + [;]:delete for 2/3 dimmed arrays is now 10x faster [3b9c4c9]
    + [;] := foo for 2/3 dimmed arrays is now 10x faster [eaf4132]
    + .iterator and .values on shaped arrays are now about 4x faster [736ab11]
    + Fixed optimization of shaped arrays that gives 10% gain on simple `for`
        loops and likely will give larger gains on bigger programs [b7e632e]
    + Made starting MappyIterator faster, affecting all Hash/Map/Baggy iterator
        methods. 2-elem Hash iteration is 1.6x faster [97fb6c2]
    + Made starting a grepper faster: .grep on with no adverbs on 2-element list
        is now 20% faster [077c8f0]
    + Made Date/DateTime creation 20% faster [0e7f480]
    + Hashes now use 4 (32-bit) or 8 (64-bit) bytes less memory per
stored item  [395f369]
    + Rational.Str is now about 40% faster [b5aa3c5]
    + Rational.base is now about 30% faster [b5aa3c5]
    + Various streamlining of code that's hard to measure the final impact of

Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star:

    + DBIish: Prepare tests for lexical module loading and do not rely
on your dependencies to load modules
    + Pod-To-HTML: Bump version and use a separate element as anchor
for "to top" links
    + Terminal-ANSIColor: Update Pod documentation and support
256-color and 24-bit RGB modes
    + doc: Large number of changes - too many to detail here
    + json\_fast: Speed gains
    + panda: Explicitly use Panda::Project as we use it in class Panda
    + perl6-lwp-simple: Change to http.perl6.org since the main site
is going https and add NO\_NETWORK\_TESTING

There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet
handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases.
Some of the not-quite-there features include:

  * advanced macros
  * non-blocking I/O (in progress)
  * some bits of Synopsis 9 and 11

There is an online resource at <http://perl6.org/compilers/features>
that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo's
backends and other Perl 6 implementations.

In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many
that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are
welcomed at <rakudobug at perl.org>.

See <http://perl6.org/> for links to much more information about
Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, presentations,
reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources.
Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in
the release tarball.

The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see
<http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the <perl6-compiler at perl.org>
mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode.

From jacoby at purdue.edu  Wed Nov 30 08:46:13 2016
From: jacoby at purdue.edu (Dave Jacoby)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:46:13 -0500
Subject: [Purdue-pm] Fwd: [HPC] Unix e-book opportunity
In-Reply-To: <op.yrq1u0wwmyqohc@arioch.rcac.purdue.edu>
References: <op.yrq1u0wwmyqohc@arioch.rcac.purdue.edu>
Message-ID: <5991c033-0d16-76f1-693e-8daacff931d5@purdue.edu>

I also am very against THIS list being used commercially, but Steve 
Kelley's message to the Purdue High-Performance Computing community 
would also be useful to the Purdue Perl community, I think.


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [HPC] Unix e-book opportunity
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:38:50 -0500
From: Steve Kelley <kelley at purdue.edu>
Organization: Research Computing Group
To: HPC Users <hpc at lists.purdue.edu>

I don't want this list used commercially, of course, but I think this 
might be useful to many of our subscribers.

O'Reilly Books (pretty much the go-to publisher for Linux reference 
works) is offering massively discounted electronic versions of a very 
useful bundle of their manuals; different individual books in the bundle 
are geared to different levels of experience, from beginner through 
intermediate-advanced sysadmin or network engineer.

The offer expires about a week from now, if I'm interpreting their 
website correctly.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/unix-book-bundle

I apologize for the 'advertising', but  I believe the usefulness of this 
offer justifies it this time.

Steve
-- 
Steve Kelley : kelley at purdue.edu
Research Computing Group
Information Technology at Purdue
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