[boulder.pm] www.perl.com: Beginners Guide to Perl (fwd)

Walter Pienciak walter at frii.com
Thu Oct 26 17:43:54 CDT 2000


Hi,

Pardon me this one-time-only forward of another Perl mailing
list, for the benefit of anyone who needs a nudge to go poke
around www.perl.com

Walter

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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

Larry gave his keynote speech at the Atlanta Linux Showcase last 
week, and spent some time talking about Perl 6. To summarize, 
Larry is still thinking.  He is sorting through the 361 proposals 
that came out of the RFC phase and dividing them into the good, 
the bad, and the ugly.

Larry's slides are online at
http://www.wall.org/~larry/als/talk.html

and Nat Torkington's partial transcript of the talk is available at

http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-meta%40perl.org/msg00423.html

It's only a partial transcript because Nat was on the road last 
week and had to do the transcript between classes and he was too 
tired to finish.  If someone else want sto finish the transcript and 
send it to me, I would would be very grateful.  The complete MP3 
file of the talk is available from

http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_stream.html?stream_id=375

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WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE

Simon Cozens has delivered another two weeks' worth of reports 
from the perl5-porters mailing list.

Doug Sheppard has begun a new series of articles that explain Perl 
for beginners.  www.perl.com is a frequent destination for people 
who are just starting out with Perl, and we hope that these articles 
will be valuable for those people.

http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html

Michel Rodriguez, a well-known XML expert, has written an article
XML processing as some other languages.  I got to meet Michel on the
O'Reilly "University of Perl" tour, where he was teaching the XML
class, and he is a very sharp fellow.  I am sure you will be
interested to find out what is wrong with Perl in this regard 
(or what is wrong with XML) and where Michel thinks that Perl is 
a good fit for XML development.

http://www.xml.com/pub/2000/10/11/perlxml/index.html

We also, finally, have a transcript of Larry's State of the Onion 
speech from last summer's Perl Conference in Monterey. It took a while 
to track down a tape and get it transcribed, but it's here now for 
those who missed it or want to refer to it.

http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html

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COMING UP

More Perl 6 news and more p5p reports.  Doug Sheppard will return in
two weeks.  And we may eventually have an article on the very
interesting and useful Class::DBI modules.

Thank you all.  I will be in touch again next week.

Mark-Jason Dominus
mjd at plover.com
I am boycotting Amazon. See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html 
for details.


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Beginner's Introduction to Perl
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/begperl1.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt
The first part in a new series that introduces Perl to people who
haven't programmed before. If you weren't sure how to get
started with Perl, here's your chance!

 
Perl Conference: State of the Onion 2000
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/23/soto2000.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt
Larry Wall's annual report on the state of Perl, from TPC 4.0
(the fourth annual Perl conference) in Monterey in July 2000. In
this full length transcript, Larry talks about the need for
changes, which has led to the effort to rewrite the language in
Perl 6.

 
Programming GNOME Applications with Perl
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/gnome.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt
Simon Cozens shows us how to use Perl to develop applications for
Gnome, the Unix desktop environment.  

 
How Perl Helped Me Win the Office Football Pool
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/10/footpool.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt
Walt Mankowski shows us how he used Perl to make a few extra
bucks at the office.

 
Guide to the Perl 6 Working Groups
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/09/perl6mail.html?wwwrrr_20001025.txt
Perl 6 discussion and planning are continuing at a furious rate
and will probably continue to do so, at least until next month
when Larry announces the shape of Perl 6 at the Linux Expo. In
the meantime, here's a summary of the main Perl 6 working groups
and discussion lists, along with an explanation of what the
groups are about.





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