[roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: People Behind Perl - Artur Bergman]

[Brian Mathis]

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Hello, world!

This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to
bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world
and on our own site.

* Perl at large.

First, it saddens me to have to bring you the news that Frank
Willison, O'Reilly's editor-in-chief suffered a massive heart
attack on Monday morning at the O'Reilly office and passed away
soon after. I knew of Frank only by his reputation and his
"Frankly Speaking" columns, but he was a great source of wit,
insight, and friendship in the O'Reilly family.

     http://www.oreilly.com/news/frank_0701.html

Those of you at the Perl Conference will have heard the great news
that the Perl Mongers and Perl Monks have merged into Yet Another
Society.  This establishes YAS as the central clearing-house for
contributions to Perl and other open-source languages. Larry
confirmed this by passing on a donation that he had received for
Perl's upkeep to Kevin Lenzo of YAS. YAS has also completed its
membership application to the Unicode Consortium.

     http://www.yetanother.org/

Slides from the Perl conference are getting gradually uploaded;
Dan Sugalski's talks on the internals of Perl 6 are now available
from dev.perl.org, courtesy of Ask Bjorn Hansen. (That man rocks!)

     http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks

Finally, I hear rumblings that the Parrot project may yet become
a reality. More when that's confirmed...

* What's new on perl.com

Neither sketchy network access, conference burn-out, nor long-distance
travelling can conspire to prevent me from bringing you this week's
perl5-porters summary. This week brings news of more "hash clamping"
discussion, the minutes of the perl5-porters meeting at TPC, a
solution to asyncronous callbacks, testing for h2ph, and much more.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010730.html

For our feature article this week, we continue our series on the
People Behind Perl. This time, I bring you an interview with Artur
Bergman, the driving force behind much of the work on Perl's new
threading model.

While the model was created by Gurusamy Sarathy, Artur's really
spent a lot of good time and effort making iThreads usable to the
ordinary Perl programmer. Artur tells us about what got him into
Perl development, and what he's doing with threads right now.


     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/01/artur.html

And now, time for me to continue on my tour of the US; the next
time we meet will be in Washington, DC!

SC

*** This Week's Features ***

People Behind Perl: Artur Bergman
We continue our series on the People Behind Perl with an interview
with Artur Bergman, the driving force behind much of the work on
Perl's new threading model. While the model was created by Gurusamy
Sarathy, Artur's really spent a lot of good time and effort making
iThreads usable to the ordinary Perl programmer. Artur tells us
about what got him into Perl development, and what he's doing with
threads right now.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/01/artur.html

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This Week on p5p 2001/07/30
Hash "clamping", a meeting of the perl-5 porters at TPC, and more!

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010730.html

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The State of the Onion 5
Larry Wall gives his annual summary of the state of the Perl world.
This year, as one might expect, the major focus was on Perl 6.
Larry gave 33 lightning talks, of 55 seconds each, outlining elements
of Perl 6's design. Here's a rundown on what Perl 6 is going to be.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/25/onion.html

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Mail Filtering with Mail::Audit
Does your e-mail still get dumped into a single Inbox because you
haven't taken the time to figure out the incantations required to
make procmail work? Simon Cozens shows how you can easily write
mail filters in something you already know: Perl.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/17/mailfiltering.html


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