[roch-pm] Perl.com: Exegesis 4 (fwd)

[Brian Mathis]

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Greetings, Perl hackers!

This is Schuyler Erle, Web hacker for O'Reilly's Online Publishing
Group. This week, Simon Cozens is on vacation, and so it is my happy
lot to share with you the latest news in the world of Perl.

* Perl at large.

Perl 5.8.0 is almost ready to see the light of day! After many
months of arduous labor by the perl5-porters, led by the
indefatigable Jarkko Hietaniemi, a feature freeze has been
announced. A "release candidate" version could be available for
download as early as next week.

Now, for those of you still lusting after a copy of Camel 3, or
perhaps one of our other delightful and informative technical books,
here's your big chance to get them all. ActiveState has prepared an
online programming survey, and in return for your submission,
they're willing to enter you in a drawing for up to $1,000 of the
O'Reilly books of your choice. Visit ActiveState to find out more.

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Also, this week heralds the latest issue of brian d foy's /The Perl
Review/. Now, at first, we thought the article's headline and
contents were an elaborate April Fool's hoax, but these guys are
actually serious, and with good reason. To find out more about this
non-joke, read the latest Perl Review at:

    http://www.theperlreview.com/

Meanwhile, the presentation proposal deadline for YAPC North America
2002 is now less than a month away, on May 1st. The conference itself
will be at Washington University in St. Louis, MO on  June 26 - 28,
2002. YAPC::NA '02 promises to be every bit as incredible as last
year's, which was described by none other than Damian Conway as "a
brilliant, neverending, vaguely surreal party of a conference."
Don't forget to register and send in your talk proposals!

    http://www.yapc.org/America/

* What's new on www.perl.com?

Speaking of Damian Conway, the illustrious perl wizard from Down
Under returns to perl.com this week, with his fourth Exegesis in
the ongoing series. As before, Damian attempts to explicate and
expand on what Larry's Apocalypses mean for us mere mortals,
complete with hypothetical example code. This week, Damian explores
many of the topics touched on in Apocalypse 4, including flow
control, blocks, exceptions, topicalizers, smart matching, private
variables, closures, specialized method calling, scalar interpolation,
and err... much more! (*whew*)

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/01/exegesis4.html

Simon will be back next week, but until then, noble Perl hackers!
Use strict and keep your warnings on!

SDE

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*** Featured Articles ***

Exegesis 4
What does the fourth apocalypse really mean to you? A4 explained
what control structures would look like in Perl 6; Damian Conway
expands on those ideas and presents a complete view of the Perl 6
control flow mechanism.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/01/exegesis4.html

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Apocalypse 4: All About Blocks
In his latest article explaining the design of Perl 6, Larry Wall
tackles the syntax of the language.

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/15/apo4.html

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CPAN PLUS
For many years the CPAN.pm module has helped people install Perl
modules. But it's also been clunky, fragile and amazingly difficult
to use programmatically. Jos Boumans introduces CPANPLUS, his
project to change all that.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/26/cpanplus.html

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mod_perl in 30 minutes
This week, Stas Bekman shows us how to install and configure
mod_perl, and how to start accelerating CGI scripts with
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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/22/modperl.html

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A Perl Hacker's Foray into .NET
We've all heard about Microsoft's .NET project. What is it, and
what does it mean for Perl?

http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/19/dotnet.html






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