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[Brian Mathis]

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This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to
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world and on our own site.

* Perl at large.

One of the reasons why Java has been something of a success,
argues Leon Brocard, is that it has a defined standard way of
developing enterprise applications - J2EE. Why hasn't Perl?
Well, Leon is trying to bring us one, and has set up the P5EE
mailing list to talk about Perl 5 Enterprise Extensions:
standardised APIs for common programming tasks. CPAN gives us
the "common programming tasks", but is somewhat lacking in the
"standardised APIs" department. Nice work, Leon, and good luck:

     http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=display&uid=189&id=1059
     p5ee-subscribe at perl.org

Graham Barr has recently released an update to his extremely
important libnet suite of modules, which fixes up some
long-standing bugs. Since libnet is now in the Perl core,
this will be picked up in time for Perl 5.6.2. (Sorry, I have
no details on when 5.6.2 is likely to be...)

     http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet

And finally, Kirrily Robert - better known as "Skud" - has
recently produced a fantastically useful piece of documentation
called "perlintro". As its name suggests, it's an introduction
to Perl; it's quite fast-paced, but an excellent overview for
people who've programmed before. Print it out! Give it to all
your friends who don't program Perl! No, hang on, why would you
have friends that don't program Perl...?


http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2001-10/msg00684.html


* What's new on perl.com


We've recently brought you lots of articles about Perl 6,
but they've all been from the big shots: Larry and Damian. What
do ordinary Perl programmers think about the changes being
proposed to the language? We asked Piers Cawley to look over the
recent Apocalypse, and give us his impressions. While he admits
that there's been some opposition from his colleagues at London
Perl Mongers, Piers himself is pretty delighted, and he wants to
tell you why.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/23/damians.html/

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Perl 6 : Not Just For Damians
Most of what we've heard about Perl 6 has come from either Larry
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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/23/damians.html/

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Filtering Mail with PerlMx
PerlMx is ActiveState's Perl plug-in for Sendmail; in the first
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http://perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/10/perlmx.html

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Transforming XML With SAX Filters
Kip Hampton concludes his series of advanced SAX topics by showing
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