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Wed Aug 15 22:31:07 CDT 2001

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Hello, world. This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor,
bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our
own site.

* Perl at large.

Ring out the bells! The third edition of the Llama Book, "Learning
Perl," is finally out. This edition has Randal Schwartz joined by
Tom Phoenix for a greatly revised version of the classic beginner's
textbook. Buy one for a friend today!

     http://perl.oreilly.com/news/perlint_0801.html
     http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/

Fans of Microsoft's .NET will be pleased to note that ActiveState
has another beta of Perl.NET out; this one is supposed to run
much faster and more reliably than the old beta. Instead of
attempting to compile Perl code down to C#, this uses a proxy which
sits between the .NET framework and an ordinary Perl interpreter.

     http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/PerlNET/More

Detractors of Microsoft's .NET, on the other hand, will be pleased
to note that Sun's open-source JXTA peer-to-peer messaging layer
is being implemented in Perl, by a project supported by Sun
themselves.

     http://jxtaperl.jxta.org/servlets/ProjectHome

Finally, I wrote a summary of what's been going on with Perl 6
recently, bringing the mailing lists up to date with some things
that have been going on in other places:

     http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg03449.html

* What's new on www.perl.com?

Speaking of Perl 6, Bryan Warnock's back, bringing us up to date
with the Perl 6 world since the Perl conference; he walks us through
what's really going on with properties, provides pointers to Damian
and Dan's slides, and to his own worn on opcode dispatches.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p6pdigest/20010811.html

This week's Perl 5 Porters summary brings news of the drive towards
specifications for POD, more great work on Unicode, and quite a lot
of work on threads. Read on!

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010815.html

Last week, we mentioned that Yet Another Perl Conference Europe
took place in Amsterdam last week. Jourke Visse was there, and he
brings us up to date on what we missed...

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/13/yapc-europe.html

Enjoy!

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*** Featured Articles ***

Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001
A review of this year's YAPC::Europe in Amsterdam

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/13/yapc-europe.html

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Quantum::Entanglement
Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a
way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.)
Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum physics
theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell
you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author,
Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works...

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

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Creating VoiceXML Applications With Perl
Kip Hampton shows you how to use VoiceXML and Perl to connect the
telephone to the Web.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/08/09/perlxml.html

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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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