[roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com: Apocalypse 4]

[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.

* Perl at large.

First, a quick, serious word for users of ActiveState's Perl Dev
Kit - there's a bug in PerlCtrl which has the potential to delete
arbitrary parts of your filesystem. If you use PerlCtrl, be extra
careful, and check out the advisory on AS's bugs page:

     http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19041

This week I discovered something that I've been looking for
for quite some time: a pure-Perl content management system.
It's called Bricolage, and the team has just released version
1.2.0 with a raft of new features. Based on Mason and mod_perl,
it could well give Zope a run for its money yet... (And we'll be
talking to Sam Tregar from Bricolage in a couple of weeks.)

     http://bricolage.thepirtgroup.com/

And everything else in the Perl world is pretty quiet, mainly
because a vast majority of the movers and shakers managed to get
themselves on a boat in the Caribbean. But we're not jealous,
are we? No, of course not.

     http://www.geekcruises.com/

* What's new on perl.com

Parrot now has regular expressions! Bryan Warnock, as usual, has
the scoop!

     http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/p6pdigest/20020112.html

And the moment we've all been waiting for, the fourth in the series
of Apocalypses, the revelations of the design of Perl 6. This time,
Larry talks "all about blocks". I don't want to give too much of
the good stuff away, but it looks like Perl 6 is going to be a lot
neater, and much, much more consistent than Perl 5 - without
actually looking that different. Read on to see how he does it...

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


Enjoy,
SC

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*** Featured Articles ***

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

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

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This Week on Perl 6 (6 - 12 Jan 2002)
Parrot has Regexp support! (And more...)

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/p6pdigest/20020112.html

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Creating Custom Widgets
Steve Lidie, coauthor of Mastering Perl/Tk, brings us more wisdom
from his Tk experience--this time, explaining how to create your
own simple widget classes.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/09/perltk.html

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Beginning Bioinformatics
James Tisdall's new book is great for biochemists eager to get
into the bioinformatics world, but what about us Perl programmers?
In this article, we turn the tables, and ask what your average Perl
programmer needs to know to get into this exciting new growth area.

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