[roch-pm] Perl.com Newsletter: Patch #10,000 (fwd)
Brian Mathis
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:51:41 -0700
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Subject: Perl.com Newsletter: Patch #10,000
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Greetings, perl.com subscribers.
This is Schuyler Erle, web hacker for the O'Reilly Network, and it
is my honor and pleasure to bring you the latest www.perl.com
newsletter. So, without dumping core, here's what's new in the
world of Perl.
* Perl at large.
Fairly slow week, gang. Seems like everyone's still recovering
from the shock of Larry's last Apocalypse, which, if you haven't
read, you really should come over to www.perl.com and check out.
Notably, Perl 5 had its 10,000th patch this week, for which
development pumpking Jarkko Hietaniemi applied a contribution of
Andreas Koenig's, in recognition of Andreas's tremendous
accomplishments with CPAN.pm and the PAUSE (a.k.a. the Perl Authors
Upload Server). On the perl5-porters mailing list, Jarkko writes:
The PAUSE is the major part of CPAN and ... [it] wouldn't exist
without Andreas. Also the wondrous CPAN.pm is his handiwork.
Remember him everytime you are using CPAN.pm and a module,
including all its prerequisites, installs like magic. I know
Andreas wants you to remember him also when the installation
doesn't work *quite* that magically :-), send him the bug
report and you can be certain that Andreas will fix the problem
amazingly fast.
Bravo to Jarkko, Andreas, and all of the perl5 porters, past and
present, who've helped the community towards this milestone.
By the way, if you've never used CPAN.pm, you should definitely take
a look at it, since it's way cool *and* it comes bundled with perl.
CPAN.pm allows you to automatically download and install Perl modules
from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network with a single command,
and it also features an interactive shell. You can find out more
about CPAN.pm by running 'perldoc CPAN', or visiting:
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CPAN
Also, Chris Nandor has been pretty busy of late. Last week, I
mentioned his progress on MacPerl 5.6.1. Well, not only has there
been another MacPerl development update since then, but on
Wednesday he also announced the long-awaited release of Slash 2.0.0.
You've probably seen Slash on the web before, even if you're not
familiar with it -- the name stands for "Slashdot-Like Automated
Storytelling Homepage." Slash sits at the heart of slashdot.org,
use.perl.org, and countless other weblog/news sites, it's Open
Source to boot, and, last but not least, it's written entirely
in perl! The latest version represents a significant leap forward
from Slash's humble origins. If you run or are thinking of running
a Slashdot-like site, have a look at:
http://www.slashcode.com
* What's new on www.perl.com?
Simon Cozens weighs in once again with another power-packed
perl5-porters digest. This week, the perl5 porters ponder the
meaning of the term "thread-safe", how to relocate an existing
Perl installation, and how to classify CPAN modules by license
type. Also, in a strange turn of events, Ilya breaks perl by feeding
it random crud.
Larry's Apocalypse 2 is still the big news on www.perl.com, but I
think I mentioned that earlier. Some time in the next week or so,
we hope to bring you a really interesting set of ruminations from
Mike Schwern, on how the cognitive lessons of the common traffic
light can inform the design of a programming language, like, say,
Perl 6.
So stay tuned! Until next week, brave Perl hackers... We return you
to your regularly scheduled E-mail.
SDE
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Off The Wall: Larry Wall: Apocalypse Two
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/03/wall.html?wwwrrr_20010501.txt
Larry Wall produces the next episode in his series of
"Apocalypses": glimpses into the design of Perl 6. This week, he
explains how Perl 6 will differ from Perl 5 in terms of chapter
2 of the Camel Book: fundamental data types, variables and the
context and scoping of the language.
Reversing Regular Expressions
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/05/01/expressions.html?wwwrrr_20010501.txt
There are some cases where searching a regular expression is
faster backwards. Pete Sergeant introduces us to sexegers,
regular expressions (regexes) operating in reverse.
Quick Start Guide with SOAP Part Two
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/24/soap.html?wwwrrr_20010501.txt
Paul Kulchenko continues his SOAP::Lite guide and shows how to
build more complex SOAP servers.
MSXML, It's Not Just for VB Programmers Anymore
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/17/msxml.html?wwwrrr_20010501.txt
Shawn Ribordy puts the tech back into the MSXML parser by using
Perl instead of Visual Basic.
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