<div>Due to the first day of March falling on a Thursday, it will be almost 2 weeks before our next meeting.</div>
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<div>So, I thought I'd send out some information from <a href="http://Perl.com">Perl.com</a>, their newsletter. They always have interesting contents and some of you may not already be receiving it.</div>
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<div>It's not too late to consider making a brief presentation at our next meeting (3/14).</div>
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<div>Looking forward to seeing you all then.</div>
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<br><br>If that paragraph by itself gives you few reasons to play with the<br>Socorro, Chris Yocum initiated his Use Perl journal with an excellent tutorial on<br>porting an existing programming language to Parrot using Parrot's
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<br>with it through Pugs (and Parrot, if you're very motivated--but keep checking<br>back!) or even through the web:<br><br><a href="http://run.pugscode.org">http://run.pugscode.org</a><br><br>If you're happy with Perl 5, however, what's the benefit to testing this
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</a><br><br>brian d foy loves to keep a mini CPAN with him. He fed the archive's<br>statistics to a graphing package to generate pretty pictures:<br><br><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/minicpan_and_grandperspective.html">
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/minicpan_and_grandperspective.html</a><br><br>Your editor admitted to liking the bash shell a little too much:<br><br><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/thank_you_bash.html">
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/thank_you_bash.html</a><br><br>... as well as ccache (that's why his Parrot is so speedy):<br><br><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/02/thank_you_ccache.html">
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