From gabor at szabgab.com Sun Jan 24 21:29:11 2016 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 05:29:11 +0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #235 - YAPC::NA::2016 announced Message-ID: <20160125052911.1A0EDC33C@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/235.html Hi there Wherever you are, enjoy the weather! Announcements YAPC::NA::2016 Update #2 -- It's Orlando! http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/01/yapcna2016-update-2----its-orl.html Finally the date and location of YAPC::NA 2016 has been announced. It is June 19-24, at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Orlando, Florida. If you'd like to get their announcements in your mailbox, sign up to the YAPC::NA announcement list ( http://yapcna.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_yapcna.org ). -------------- Perl Dev KIt 9.5 Released http://www.activestate.com/blog/2016/01/perl-dev-kit-95-released -------------- ============= Articles Why Learn Perl? http://perlhacks.com/2016/01/why-learn-perl/ Dave is answering two questions: Do people still use Perl? and Are there people who use Perl but aren't as expert in it as they would like to be (or as their managers would like them to be)? -------------- A Date with CPAN, Part 6: Time Won't Give Me Time http://blogs.perl.org/users/buddy_burden/2016/01/a-date-with-cpan-part-6-time-wont-give-me-time.html The newest episode of the long series by Buddy dealing with Date and Time. -------------- The problem with Exporters (Meet Importer) http://blogs.perl.org/users/chad_exodist_granum/2016/01/the-problem-with-exporters-meet-importer.html Why does the import() function need to be part of the module that is exporting functions? Shouldn't it be part of the language or at least an tool that can import? -------------- Deprecation is citizenship http://blogs.perl.org/users/camspi/2016/01/deprecation-is-citizenship.html Dancer2::Plugin::ParamKeywords ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2::Plugin::ParamKeywords ) is now deprecated and the documentation says so! -------------- ============= Discussion Why isn't Perl more popular? https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/427kq8/why_isnt_perl_more_popular/ This subject seems to be one of the most popular in the Perl subredit. With 29 upvotes and 53 comments a mere 13 hours after it was posted has a very good chance to be on the home page of Reddit. Aside from the usual 'but they are both Turing complete' style comments there are a few that describe the situation quite well. -------------- ============= Code Operations on value-pairs in Perl http://perlmaven.com/operation-on-value-pairs-in-perl List::Util has a couple of nice, and slightly surprising functions. For example: pairs, unpairs, pairkeys, pairvalues, pairgrep, pairfirst, and pairmap. Most of them act on pairs of values found in a list or array. -------------- A Na?ve SQL Shell http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2016/01/a-naive-sql-shell.html Indeed. A very limited reimplementation of DBI::Shell. -------------- Pure-Perl XML http://blogs.perl.org/users/polettix/2016/01/pure-perl-xml.html -------------- Understanding regular expressions http://perlmaven.com/understanding-regular-expressions -------------- ============= Web Validation logic is more complex than you expect http://blogs.perl.org/users/yuki_kimoto/2016/01/validation-logic-is-more-complex-than-you-expect.html About the 4 cases how parameters in GET requests can arrive. -------------- ============= CPAN CPAN distribution kwalitee for River stages http://neilb.org/2016/01/20/river-and-kwalitee.html Why do the most commonly reused modules have the highest number of CPANTS failures? Is it their age? Is that the age of their authors? Maybe lack of willingness to change? Is there a specific metric that is a common source of failure or a specific author? -------------- ============= Grants Grant Report : RPerl User Documentation - Final (Jan 2016) http://news.perlfoundation.org/2016/01/grant-report-rperl-user-docume-3.html -------------- ============= Perl 6 Further Perl 6 Adventures http://blogs.perl.org/users/mike_friedman/2016/01/further-perl-6-adventures.html A recap on the 5 Perl 6 articles written by Mike. -------------- Getting End-of-Document POD and Declarative POD to Play Nice in Perl 6 http://hoelz.ro/blog/getting-eod-pod-and-declarative-pod-to-play-nice In Perl 6 you can have access to the documentation during run-time. (Does this mean we could write a module that would just read its own documentation and then execute it? -------------- Perl 6 is written in... Perl 6 http://blogs.perl.org/users/zoffix_znet/2016/01/perl-6-is-written-in-perl-6.html Have you every been afraid of touching the Perl 5 core because you did not want to touch C? That's over with Perl 6 where, at least in the case of Rakudo, most of it is written in Perl 6. discuss on Reddit ( https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/4254yf/perl_6_is_written_in_perl_6 / ) -------------- ============= Weekly collections NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.com/ Great modules released last week ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/lxiv-cpan-great-modules-released-las t.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/cxcvi-metacpan-weekly-report-perl.ht ml ); StackOverflow Perl report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2016/01/ccxxi-stackoverflow-perl-report.html ). -------------- ============= Event reports On London PM Hack Days, and a Recap for Saturday 23-Jan-16 http://virtualsue.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/on-london-pm-hack-days-and-recap-for_24.html -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? 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