From szabgab at gmail.com Mon Jun 14 01:35:37 2010 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:35:37 +0300 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Rehovot Perl Mongers tomorrow? Message-ID: hi, I just came back from the German Perl Workshop and LinuxTag Berlin and feel slightly out of touch with what's going on with the Rehovot Perl Mongers. As I see from the web site http://rehovot.pm.org/meetings.html we have the next meeting tomorrow. Do we have any talks scheduled? If not, shall I give a talk about Perl 6 ? Gabor From meir at guttman.co.il Mon Jun 14 01:38:28 2010 From: meir at guttman.co.il (Meir Guttman) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:38:28 +0300 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Rehovot Perl Mongers tomorrow? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Gabor, IMHO, that would be great! I would like very much to hear about it. Meir, Ashdod -----Original Message----- From: rehovot-pm-bounces+meir=guttman.co.il at pm.org [mailto:rehovot-pm-bounces+meir=guttman.co.il at pm.org] On Behalf Of Gabor Szabo Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 11:36 AM To: Perl in Israel; rehovot-pm at mail.pm.org Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Rehovot Perl Mongers tomorrow? hi, I just came back from the German Perl Workshop and LinuxTag Berlin and feel slightly out of touch with what's going on with the Rehovot Perl Mongers. As I see from the web site http://rehovot.pm.org/meetings.html we have the next meeting tomorrow. Do we have any talks scheduled? If not, shall I give a talk about Perl 6 ? Gabor _______________________________________________ Rehovot-pm mailing list Rehovot-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/rehovot-pm From shlomif at iglu.org.il Mon Jun 14 03:21:25 2010 From: shlomif at iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:21:25 +0300 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] [Israel.pm] Rehovot Perl Mongers tomorrow? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201006141321.25341.shlomif@iglu.org.il> On Monday 14 Jun 2010 11:35:37 Gabor Szabo wrote: > hi, > > I just came back from the German Perl Workshop and > LinuxTag Berlin and feel slightly out of touch with what's going on > with the Rehovot Perl Mongers. > > As I see from the web site http://rehovot.pm.org/meetings.html > we have the next meeting tomorrow. > > Do we have any talks scheduled? > > If not, shall I give a talk about Perl 6 ? > Sounds good. Would anyone like to accompany me on the train ride from Tel Aviv? If so please call me at 054-6232377 . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . From szabgab at gmail.com Mon Jun 14 04:01:02 2010 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:01:02 +0300 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Rehovot Perl Mongers tomorrow? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > hi, > > I just came back from the German Perl Workshop and > LinuxTag Berlin and feel slightly out of touch with what's going on > with the Rehovot Perl Mongers. > > As I see from the web site http://rehovot.pm.org/meetings.html > we have the next meeting tomorrow. > > Do we have any talks scheduled? > > If not, shall I give a talk about Perl 6 ? OK, so I found out that I've forgotten to upload the schedule but it was already in the source of the web site. Amir E. Aharoni will talk about Analyzing Wikipedia dumps using Perl on the July 13 meeting. So this meeting did not have a scheduled talk. Soon sending the announcement of the Perl 6 talk I'll give. Gabor From szabgab at gmail.com Mon Jun 14 04:09:40 2010 From: szabgab at gmail.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:09:40 +0300 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Next Rehovot.pm meeting: (15th June): Introduction to Perl 6 Message-ID: hi all, The next meeting of the Rehovot Perl Mongers will take plaec on 15th June (tomorrow) between 18:00-22:00 in the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot in Room 101 in the Levine Building. See details and map on http://rehovot.pm.org/meetings.html The talk starts at 18:30 Content: Introduction to Perl 6 I've just written and gave this talk 2 days ago at the LinuxTag in Berlin. After a short background and a few words on Perl 5 vs. Perl 6 I'll go over a number of examples that is part of the imminent Rakudo * release. People who bring a notebook and enough network connection will be able helped to install Rakudo on their machine. It is quite easy to install so you could do it ahead of the meeting by following the instructions on http://www.rakudo.org/ regards Gabor ps. Please forward this invitation to friends, enemies and co-workers. From shlomif at iglu.org.il Fri Jun 18 08:24:03 2010 From: shlomif at iglu.org.il (Shlomi Fish) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:24:03 +0300 Subject: [Rehovot-pm] Report on the Last Rehovot.pm Meeting Message-ID: <201006181824.03592.shlomif@iglu.org.il> Hi all, this is my report on the last Rehovot.pm meeting. I'd like to blog it, but I'll see about. Well, I arrived by train in time, as the train was right on schedule, but this time it took me a lot of time to find the building (I should consult the map next time) so I arrived just in time. There I saw Gabor and also met his son, as well as Jaime (= "Hayim") Prilusky. Other people arrived momentarily including Ilan, the nefarious Pythoneer spy (just kidding about that) as well as someone new who was interested in using Perl to fetch stock data from the stocks' agency sites and ran into a few problems. In any case, this time no one brought any bourekas (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6rek ) so I became hungry during the recess and had to eat some Bisli (an Israeli snack) I brought from home. Next time I'll make sure to: 1. Coordinate who will bring Bourekas. 2. Bring some spare coins for the vending machines. In any case, we waited a little and started the presentation, which as noted earlier was about Perl 6. Not too many people came, but there were between 8 and 10 people I think. The presentation was different from Gabor's old presentation about Perl 6, and used slides with a smaller amount of text on them, and primarily one or two code samples. The presentation sparked some discussions. Among them: 1. We noted that when entering text on the Rakudo REPL then .chars() which should return the count of characters returned an incorrect result for Unicode characters, including Hebrew. As I learned later on IRC, this was a semi-known issue and it didn't work very well for some reason. In Perl 6, there is no longer length and there are only chars() (for characters) and bytes() (for bytes). 2. We noted that the multiple-comparison conditional notation - ?if 0 <= $percent <= 100? emulated Python. 3. Again there was interest in the junctions (?if ($n == 3|44|505)?). 4. We discussed the new Perl 6 regular expressions including the ":" operator which stops the backtracking and recursion at this point. 5. There was some discussion about sub-classing Perl 6's grammars. 6. We discussed testing briefly. I told that perl-5.12.0 already had over 300,000 test assertions, in comparison to ruby's few thousand tests (which Gabor said some of them still failed for him). --------------------- I should note that I noticed that there was Firefox 2.0.0.x installed on the computers we had there, and that there was a nasty Firewall there that blocked IRC. Maybe I'll recall more stuff later on. In any case, we ran out of slides relatively early, and I left to catch the train. I had to switch to a different train at the end station, and then arrived at the Tel Aviv university's train station, where my father waited for me. After I arrived home I updated Rakudo from git/svn and tested the Unicode bug and IRCed about it. :-) Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .