[rochester-pm-list] www.perl.com: Guide to the Perl 6 Working Groups (fwd)

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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

The big news this week is the release of Perl 5.7.  As you may 
recall, Perl's version numbers have changed to behave more like 
those used by Linux and other free software projects.  Perl 5.6 
is the current stable release; 5.6.1 will be the next maintenance 
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WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE?

Guide to Perl 6 Activity 

Perl 6 discussion and planning are continuing at a furious rate 
and will probably continue to do so, at least until next month 
when Larry announces the shape of Perl 6 at the Linux Expo.  In 
the meantime, I've written up a summary of the main Perl 6 working 
groups and discussion lists, along with an explanation of what the 
working groups are all about.  This is available at: 

http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/09/perl6mail.html 

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Detecting Filesystem Changes

David Blank-Edelman, the author of _Perl for System Administration_,
has contributed an excellent article about using Perl to do a
postmortem on your filesystem after you think you've had an unwanted
intruder.  Did they replace /bin/login with a trojan horse?  David
shows how to use Perl's checksumming modules to find out.  

http://perl.oreilly.com/news/sysadmin_0800.html

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New Success Story

When I teach Perl classes, and the students ask whether a certain
feature or technique is applicable in the real world, I always try 
to come up with an example drawn from payroll, cost accounting, or
banking.  Nobody can ever say that banking is a toy problem.  

You can imagine my delight when I discovered that UniCredito Italiano,
a large Italian bank group, used Perl for a major data migration
project.  More complete details are available at: 

http://perl.oreilly.com/news/ixl_0800.html

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COMING UP

The interview with Ilya Zakharevich is awaiting his final approval, 
so we should have it up for you by next week.  We plan to have a 
five- or six- article introduction to Perl series for people who are 
just starting out.  Walt Mankowski may yet divulge how Perl helped 
him win the office football pool.  Simon Cozens may deliver an article 
called 'Hot Dogma' about common advice that isn't always good advice.
Michael Schwern, author of the Class::DBI modules, may contribute
articles demonstrating useful techniques for interfacing Perl's OOP
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Thank you all.  I will be in touch again in a week or two.

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Guide to the Perl 6 Working Groups
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/09/perl6mail.html?wwwrrr_20000906.txt
Perl 6 discussion and planning are continuing at a furious rate
and will probably continue to do so, at least until next month
when Larry announces the shape of Perl 6 at the Linux Expo. In
the meantime, here's a summary of the main Perl 6 working groups
and discussion lists, along with an explanation of what the
groups are about.

 
Profiles: Damian Conway Talks Shop
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/08/conway.html?wwwrrr_20000906.txt
The author of Object-Oriented Perl talks about the Dark Art of
programming, motivations for taking on projects, and the
"deification" of technology.


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