[roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com: The Lighter Side of CPAN]

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Wed Oct 31 23:25:48 CST 2001


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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
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* Perl at large.

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http://www.activestate.com/Products/Productivity/Visual_Studio/Visual_Perl/

Bad news, however, from the Perl Journal; it looks like it's been
absorbed into a small section of Sysadmin Magazine, and will no
longer be produced as a separate journal. I'm not sure how popular
this latest move by CMP will be with the Perl community that it's
supposed to be trying to serve.

     http://use.perl.org/articles/01/10/30/2159238.shtml

And finally, the venue for YAPC::Europe 2002 has been
announced - it'll be in Munich, Germany, between the 18th
and the 20th of September.  Hopefully the newly formed
Frankfurt am Main and Prague Perl Mongers groups will be
helping out. The venue for YAPC::America::North has not
been finalised, however the rumours are that Boston has a
pretty good bid. And hopefully we'll see a YAPRC Japan
soon - more Perl conferences! Need more Perl conferences!

     http://www.yapc.org/Europe/
     http://use.perl.org/articles/01/10/30/0446208.shtml
     http://prague.pm.org/

* What's new on perl.com

Abhijit Menon-Sen brings us all the news from Perl 5 development,
including what's left to do before 5.8.0 can be released, fun
with tests, and much more.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/p5pdigest/20011021.html

And speaking of fun, we have a slightly light-hearted article
from Alex Gough, the author of the ha-ha-only-serious
Quantum::Entanglement module. He takes us on a whirlwind tour
around the lighter side of CPAN - pointless, wacky, clever or
otherwise fun modules. If you're looking for a bit of break
from the everyday coding drudge, this could be for you...

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/31/lighter.html

Enjoy,
SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

The Lighter Side of CPAN
Alex Gough takes us on a whirlwind tour around the more esoteric
and entertaining areas of the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network,
and makes some serious points about Perl programming at the same
time.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/31/lighter.html

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This Week on p5p 2001/10/21
What's left before 5.8.0, the POD specification, test-fu and more.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/p5pdigest/20011021.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
or Damian. But what do average Perl hackers think about the
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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/23/damians.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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http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/10/10/sax-filters.html

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