[roch-pm] [Fwd: www.perl.com: Beginners Intro to Perl - Part 5]

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Thu Dec 21 09:17:09 CST 2000



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Subject: www.perl.com: Beginners Intro to Perl - Part 5
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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

* Perl News

The first trial release of Perl 5.6.1 is out.  5.6.1 looks to
be a big improvement over 5.6.0, due to the great work of the
release manager, Jarkko Hietaniemi, and the cast of thousands.
Interested persons can get a copy from

   http://public.activestate.com/gsar/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL1.patch.gz

Do not get this unless you're interested in beta-testing an
unfinished release, and DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES install
this as the default version for your users.

In other news, O'Reilly has announced the call for participation
in their fifth annual Perl Conference, to be held this year in
July in San Diego (not Monterey). If you are thinking of submitting
a paper or giving a talk, the deadline for refereed papers is
20 January (four weeks from now), and 1 February for all other
papers and proposals.  Complete information is available at

   http://conferences.ora.com/perl5/


* New on the Site

In part 5 of Doug Sheppard's series on Perl for beginning programmers,
Doug gives a clear, simple account of object-oriented programming and
why and how to use it in Perl.

   http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/begperl5.html

Also, a surprise:  Nat Torkington sent in a short piece about .NET,
Microsoft's answer to Java.  Nat has a nice summary of the ideas
behind .NET and a list of references to related materials, some of
which are directly concerned with Perl and others which are not.

   http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/net.html

One thing Nat didn't mention in the article is that there's already an
implementation of Python that compiles to Microsoft's IL (intermediate
language) and which will run on any .NET platform.  (This is analogous
to running on the Java Virtual Machine.)  I think this was the impetus
for the article in the first place---one of Perl's strengths is that
it runs on every important platform, and it would be a shame if Perl
was left behind on this one.

Thank you all.  I will be in touch again next week.

Mark Dominus
Managing Editor

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Article: Beginners Intro to Perl - Part 5
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/begperl5.html?wwwrrr_20001220.txt
Doug Sheppard discusses object-oriented programming in part five
of his series on beginning Perl.


Article: What every Perl programmer needs to know about .NET
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/net.html?wwwrrr_20001220.txt
A very brief explanation of Microsoft's .NET project and why it's
interesting.


Article: Why I Hate Advocacy
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html?wwwrrr_20001220.txt
Are you an effective Perl advocate? Mark Dominus explains why you
might be advocating Perl in the wrong way.


Article: Red Flags Return
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/11/repair3x.html?wwwrrr_20001220.txt
Readers pointed out errors and suggested more improvements to the
code in my 'Red Flags' articles. As usual, there's more than one
way to do it!


Programming GNOME Applications with Perl - Part 2
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/11/gnome2.html?wwwrrr_20001220.txt
Simon Cozens shows us how to use Perl to develop applications for
Gnome, the Unix desktop environment.



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