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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.

* Perl at large.

Two major things this week. Firstly, all of us at perl.com and the
O'Reilly Network extend our condolences and prayers to those people
or their families caught up in this week's devastation in New York
and Washington, D.C.

Damian Conway has set up a page to track the status of all members
of the Perl community known to have been in NY or DC at the time;
if you're worried about a friend in the community, your first
port of call should be:

     http://www.yetanother.org/damian/September_11.html

Thankfully, at time of writing, everyone on that message board is
marked as "Safe", but we recognise that many of you will have been
touched in some way by this tragedy, and our thoughts are with you.

And now some happier news; on Monday, Nat Torkington announced that
the holder of the source pumpkin for Perl 6 would be Simon Cozens -
oh, hang on, that's me. Later in the day, I released the first
version of Parrot, the Perl 6 bytecode interpreter.

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/10/1730204&mode=thread&threshold=
     http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-announce@perl.org/msg00293.html

And you can download parrot from CPAN, from CVS or from the nightly
snapshot service:

     http://www.cpan.org/src/parrot-0.0.1.tar.gz
     http://cvs.perl.org/
     http://www.netthink.co.uk/downloads/parrot-nightly.tar.gz

Patches are, of course, welcome.

* What's new on perl.com

As you might have guessed from the above, I've been more than a
little busy this week; unfortunately, this means I haven't had
time to produce the perl5-porters summary. My apologies, and I'll
try harder next week.  However, the Perl 6 summary is here,
covering oodles of documentation, and more discussion of the
much-misunderstood lexical insertion feature.

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/p6pdigest/20010908.html

You've heard of Tk, you might have heard of Gtk, but what about
wxWindows? This is a highly portable, good-looking graphical user
interface and, like all good things, you can use it from Perl.
Jouke Visse brings you the first part of his wxPerl tutorial.

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/wxtutorial1.html

Enjoy,
SC

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wxPerl: Another GUI for Perl
Jouke Visse brings us a new tutorial on how to use wxPerl to create
good-looking GUIs for Perl programs.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/12/wxtutorial1.html

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Changing Hash Behaviour with tie
Hashes are one of the most useful data structures Perl provides,
but did you know you can make them even more useful by changing
the way they work? Dave Cross shows us how it's done.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/09/04/tiedhash.html

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Perl Helps The Disabled
As part of Mark-Jason Dominus's Lightning Talks at the 2001 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention, Jon Bjornstad gave a talk about a Perl/Tk
program he wrote to help a mute quadriplegic friend, Sue Simpson,
to speak and to better use her computer. Jon's talk received a grand
reception, not only for his clever use of Perl, but for a remarkably
unselfish application of his skills.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/27/bjornstad.html

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Choosing a Templating System
Perrin Harkins takes us on a grand tour of the most popular text
and HTML templating systems.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html

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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2001/08/16/code_red.html

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Quantum::Entanglement
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theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell
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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.html

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