FW: www.perl.com: Pathologically Polluting Perl (02/07/2001)

Fri Feb 9 08:58:30 CST 2001

FYI. I thought the news that perl is now ported to 70
platforms is pretty impressive. The Inline.pm module
looks like it could be very useful.

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we are meanwhile pleased to report that Perl has been ported to Yet 
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Windows CE port of Perl, bringing the total number of Perl-enabled 
operating systems to about 70. (Beat that, Java!) More info on the 
WinCE port can be found at:

	http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/software.html

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until May 31st. If you've got anything you'd care to introduce in a 
five-minute presentation, you can find more details at his website:

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Finally, now that Damian Conway's gotten himself fully into gear on 
behalf of the Perl community for the coming year, he's begun touring 
and giving free talks at Perl Monger meetings, and so forth. He'll be 
speaking on Quantum::Superpositions in Silicon Valley this week, and 
on Lingua::Romana::Perligata in NYC next week. If you're in the 
vicinity of one of his scheduled presentations, go down and see him, 
especially if you haven't heard him lecture before. It's a real treat. 
You can keep up with his calendar on the Conway Channel at:

	http://yetanother.org/damian/

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

Brian Ingerson has done the ultimate in fulfilling Perl's promise as 
a glue language, with his Inline.pm module. Using Inline.pm, you can 
actually seamlessly embed C, C++, and even Python code into your Perl 
scripts, with support for even more languages on the way. In this 
week's feature article, Brian gives us the grand tour of Inline.pm, 
and also introduces his CPR utility, about which Adam "Ziggy" Turoff 
has been quoted as saying: "I feel like my head has just been wrapped 
around a brick." We're sure yours will, too. (Mine did.) 
Find out more at:

	http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/02/inline.html

Once again, as always, the inimitable Simon Cozens fills us in on the 
recent and often miraculous doings of the perl5-porters, with his 
weekly digest. This week, Simon discusses CHECK blocks, work on 
select() under Win32, 'politically correct' internals hacking, 
and more.

	http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/02/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20010206.html

Finally, I'm pleased to report that the Perl documentation at 
http://www.perl.com/doc/ has been brought up to speed with CPAN. 
(CPAN seems to still have only the documentation for 5.005 available 
in HTML format at the moment, but we're working on that, too.) I want 
to thank Robert Spier for bringing this to our attention, and I feel 
compelled to point out that this is only one of the improvements that 
we've made, or plan to make, based on suggestions from our readers, 
and from members of the community.

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Article: Pathologically Polluting Perl
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/02/inline.html?wwwrrr_20010206.txt
Brian Ingerson introduces Inline.pm and CPR; with them you can
embed C inside Perl and turn C into a scripting language.

Quick Start with SOAP
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/soap.html?wwwrrr_20010206.txt
An introduction to SOAP::Lite, a module that provides simple yet
flexible interface to SOAP, a popular XML-RPC protocol. Using
SOAP::Lite, Perl scripts can access objects and execute
procedures on remote servers, and also serve SOAP objects and
procedures over the 'Net.

Creating Data Output Files Using the Template Toolkit
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/tt2.html?wwwrrr_20010206.txt
Dave Cross explains why you should add the Template Toolkit to
your installation of Perl and why it is useful for more than
just dynamic web pages.

A Beginner's Introduction to POE
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/poe.html?wwwrrr_20010206.txt
Interested in event-driven Perl? Dennis Taylor and Jeff Goff show
us how to write a simple server daemon using POE, the Perl
Object Environment.

Article: Beginners Intro to Perl - Part 6
http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/01/begperl6.html?wwwrrr_20010206.txt
Doug Sheppard shows us how to activate Perl's built in security
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