[HRPM] www.perl.com: Adventures on Perl Whirl 2000 (fwd)

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In case you're not subscribed.  (If you are, they seem to send a few extra
copies recently.  Bugger.)  The Perl Whirl article was a good read.

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A. When Batman fought the Penguin, he won.

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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

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WHAT'S NEW ON THE SITE?

I just got back from the fabulous Perl Whirl cruise, which 
really was a blast.  Alaska was amazing, with beautiful 
weather and big snow-capped mountains.  The thing I'll 
always remember about the cruise is that we had to suddenly 
interrupt my regex class for ten minutes to watch the whales 
out the windows.  Funny how that never happens when I teach 
in Santa Clara!

I'd planned to write up a full cruise report when I returned, 
but when I got back last week I realized that I couldn't do 
a really good job, because in some sense I wasn't on the cruise 
in the same way other people were: Most of the classes I 
attended were taught by me, and I can't talk about those in a 
useful way anyhow.  So I asked Adam Turoff, founding Perl 
Monger and recipient of the 1999 White Camel Award, to give me 
an eleventh-hour cruise report, and that's what you'll find on 
the site this week.

***

PERL PORTER NEWS 

P5P digests continue to appear.  The big news from p5p this week 
is that Ilya Zakharevich has abandoned Perl and P5P.  In case you 
didn't know, Ilya is probably the single person who has contributed 
most to the Perl core over the last five years, with the possible 
exceptions of Larry Wall and Gurusamy Sarathy.  In addition to his 
work on the OS/2 port and countless miscellaneous fixes, Ilya was 
responsible for Perl's operator overloading features, the excellent 
CPerl Mode for emacs, substantial enhancements to the Perl debugger, 
and huge improvements to Perl's regex engine.  Because of Ilya's 
work, I had to fix big chunks of the Regex class I taught at TPC 
last year: All my examples of regexes that go out of control and 
take ten years to match turned out to be rather speedy in Perl 5.005.  
We hope to carry an interview with Ilya later in the summer, but 
he's busy in Europe now.  

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EMAIL APOLOGIES 

We apologize for the problems with the newsletter mailing last 
week that resulted in many people receiving four or five copies 
of the newsletter.  The email folks tell me that they're sure it 
won't happen again this week.

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COMING UP

Next week I'll be off at San Diego Usenix, and, through some 
dangerous tampering with the space-time continuum, at YAPC in 
Pittsburgh.  Please do say hello if you run into me.  When I 
return, I'll have a report about YAPC (or I'll get Adam to write 
another one) and we'll carry another installment of `Program Repair 
Shop and Red Flags'.


Thank you all!  I will be in touch again in two weeks.

Mark Dominus
Managing Editor


Article: Adventures on Perl Whirl 2000
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/06/perlwhirl.html?wwwrrr_20000613.txt
Adam Turoff's report on last week's Perl Whirl cruise to Alaska


ANSI Standard Perl?
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/06/06/index.html?wwwrrr_20000613.txt
[06/06/2000]


Perl Meets COBOL
http://www.perl.com/pub/2000/05/16/index.html?wwwrrr_20000613.txt
[05/16/2000]



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