From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Oct 30 01:58:27 2017 From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:58:27 -0000 Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #327 - The Quest for a 100-Year Programming Language Message-ID: <20171030085736.4AC3FC086@s8.hostlocal.com> Perl Weekly http://perlweekly.com/ You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer. http://perlweekly.com/archive/327.html Hi there! plenty of interesting stufff this week: an interview with Larry Wall, Call For Participation for the German Perl Worksop, and Call For Cakes at the London Perl Workshop. I am also running a new survey. This time about Continuous Integration. Fill it out ( https://code-maven.com/continuous-integration-systems )! Enjoy your week! -- Your editor: Gabor Szabo. Interview Larry Wall's Quest for a 100-Year Programming Language https://thenewstack.io/larry-walls-quest-100-year-programming-language/ -------------- ============= Articles Tracing Perl memory leaks with Devel::MAT, part 2 https://tech.binary.com/tracing-perl-memory-leaks-with-devel-mat-part-2/ A very detailed explanation on how to use Devel::MAT to find a memory leak in Mojo::Redis2. If the terminology in the article is unfamiliar, don't worry in the first part of the series ( https://tech.binary.com/tracing-perl-memory-leaks-with-devel-mat/ ) Paul explained those. -------------- Monitoring my phone's internet activity with DD-WRT and Perl http://perltricks.com/article/monitoring-my-phone-s-internet-activity-with-netflows-and-perl/ 'Unusual traffic from your computer network' when using Samsung Galaxy S8. But what is it? -------------- Split retaining the separator or parts of it in Perl http://perlmaven.com/split-retaining-the-separator -------------- ============= Code Perl string concatenation and repetition http://blog.geekuni.com/2017/10/perl-string-concatenation-and-repetition.html Remember that 'x' is different to '*' and lists are different to arrays, -------------- Perl get hardware/OS data without non-standard modules https://gist.github.com/aras-p/47e2252d6b1fa57d3619fd8e021690ec Let the code speak. -------------- ============= CPAN Purge your old releases from CPAN! http://neilb.org/2017/10/27/purge-your-old-releases.html That will free up space on the CPAN server and on the hundreds of mirrors while the old versions will live forever on BackPAN. -------------- ============= Grants Maintaining Perl 5 (Tony Cook): Grant Report for September 2017 http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/10/maintaining-perl-5-tony-cook-g-3.html -------------- Grant Update: Test2 Manual by Chad Granum http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/10/grant-update-test2-manual-by-c.html -------------- ============= Perl 6 Main Development Branch Renamed from 'nom' to 'master' http://rakudo.org/2017/10/27/main-development-branch-renamed-from-nom-to-master/ In case you were following the development of Rakudo, the most advanced implementation of Perl 6, you know they used an unusually-named main development branch called 'nom'. That was now switched to 'master' to align with the default expectation. -------------- Rakudo Perl 6 Advent Calendar 2017 Call for Authors https://rakudo.party/post/Rakudo-Perl-6-Advent-Calendar-2017--Call-for-Authors It is still more than a month away, but it is time to start working on the articles to continue the tradition started in 2009. -------------- Perl6 should be renamed Perl++ http://blogs.perl.org/users/vstemen/2017/10/perl6-should-be-renamed-perlplusplus.html We haven't had a thread about renaming Perl 6 for quite some time. Here are the reactions at Reddit Perl 6 ( https://www.reddit.com/r/perl6/comments/78txh8/xpost_perl6_should_be_rena med_perl/ ) and Reddit Perl ( https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/78lx3g/perl6_should_be_renamed_per l/ ) -------------- Perl 6 weekly: Hyper lands, racing? https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/2017-43-hyper-lands-racing/ The usual set of beauty and fun! -------------- ============= Surveys The 3 most important Programming languages to you https://code-maven.com/3-most-important-programming-languages The results of the survey from last week. -------------- Continuous Integration Systems https://code-maven.com/continuous-integration-systems New survey -------------- ============= Weekly collections NICEPERL's lists http://niceperl.blogspot.com/ Great modules released last week ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/clvi-cpan-great-modules-released-las t.html ); MetaCPAN weekly report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/cclxxxviii-metacpan-weekly-report.ht ml ); StackOverflow Perl report ( http://niceperl.blogspot.com/2017/10/cccxii-stackoverflow-perl-report.htm l ). -------------- ============= Event reports 2017 Perl 5 Core Hackathon Held in Amsterdam October 12-15 http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_e_keenan/2017/10/2017-perl-5-core-hackathon-held-in-amsterdam-october-12-15.html -------------- ============= Events Call for Organizers - TPCNA::2018 http://news.perlfoundation.org/2017/10/call-for-organizers-tpcna2018.html The Perl Conference Organizing Committee for the 2018 NEEDS your help! -------------- Barcelona Perl & Friends: Saturday 4 Nov 2017 http://blogs.perl.org/users/james_e_keenan/2017/10/barcelona-perl-friends-saturday-4-nov-2017.html -------------- Community Cakes for the London Perl Workshop? http://neilb.org/2017/10/29/community-cakes-lpw-2017.html -------------- German Perl-Workshop 2018 - Call for Participation http://act.yapc.eu/gpw2018/news/1527 Between 4-6 April 2017 in Bergisch Gladbach, 15 km from Cologne/K?ln. -------------- ============= Perl Jobs by Perl Careers Do you love customers? Senior Perl Developer with a product focus, London https://perl.careers/jobs/do-you-love-customers-senior-perl-developer-with-a-product-focus-london/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly Ever find yourself wishing you could see meaningful impact on users from your work? Trapped in a company with long release cycles and dubious release dates? Wish your ideas for product improvement didn?t keep disappearing in to the Project Manager?s backlog? -------------- Largest Perl team in London with beautiful Docklands offices https://perl.careers/jobs/largest-perl-team-in-london-with-beautiful-docklands-offices/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly Large, dynamic Perl team in Canary Wharf looking for mid-level and senior developers. Run by a Perl-loving CTO in beautiful offices with a great view over Canary Wharf, the company manages one legacy Perl codebase and a whole bunch of very new, very shiny, and very modern codebases that power the market-leading solution in their particular area. Free breakfast, too, for some values of breakfast. -------------- Perl mentor needed for large and growing team - train the next generation of Perl developers in London https://perl.careers/jobs/perl-mentor-needed-for-large-and-growing-team---train-the-next-generation-of-perl-developers-in-london/?utm_source=perlweekly&utm_campaign=perlweekly&utm_medium=perlweekly Do you have some great Perl war stories? Can you help guide and grow the experience of junior Perl developers? Never get tired of explaining what -------------- ============= You joined the Perl Weekly to get weekly e-mails about the Perl programming language and related topics. Want to see more? See the archives ( http://perlweekly.com/archive/ ) of all the issues. 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