[roch-pm] Perl.com: Lightweight Languages (fwd)

[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. Because of the holiday season in
the US, I'm having to get this newsletter out to you before
you head off for Thanksgiving, and hence there's not much new
this week.

* Perl at large.

Last week, I talked about Matt Sergeant's XML::SAX - this week,
I'm happy to announce that Robin Berjon has come out with the
Expat goods.  In other words, XML::SAX::Expat is out. Now you
can have a fast backend to the generic SAX2 frontend.

    http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=XML-SAX-Expat

David Ritchie has produced an interesting little Perl tutorial
for high school students which takes a novel approach to teaching
the fundamentals of the language. Take a look:

    http://home.mindspring.com/~djrassoc01/PoP/Pop.html

* What's new on perl.com

As mentioned last week, Dan Sugalski attended the Lightweight
Languages workshop at MIT this weekend; leading lights from
language research got together with implementors like Dan and I,
Jeremy Hylton from Python and many others. It was certainly good
for cross-language relations and we learnt a lot of interesting
things about the state of the art in academic language research
and implementation. For the whole scoop, see this week's article:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/lightweight.html

Have a good holiday,
SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

Lightweight Languages
Simon Cozens reports from this weekend's Lightweight Languages
workshop at the MIT AI labs, where leading language researchers
and implementors got together to chat about what they're up to.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/21/lightweight.html

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Parsing Protein Domains with Perl
James Tisdall, author of O'Reilly's Beginning Perl for
Bioinformatics, shows biologists how to program in Perl using
biological data, with downloadable code examples.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/16/perlbio2.html

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Create RSS channels from HTML news sites
Chris Ball shows us how to turn any ordinary news site into a
Remote Site Summary web service.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/15/creatingrss.html

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XML::LibXML - An XML::Parse Alternative
Kip Hampton discusses XML::LibXML, a capable, updated alternative
to Perl's venerable and venerated XML::Parser.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/14/xml-libxml.html

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Object-Oriented Perl
How do you move from an intermediate Perl programmer to an expert?
Understanding object-oriented Perl is one key step along the way.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/ooperl.html

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