From doomvox at gmail.com Fri Jun 12 17:52:10 2020 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:52:10 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] June 14th, Raku Study Group Message-ID: Welcome again to the world's longest established permanent floating Raku study group. https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/271263186/ With a free account, zoom technically limits meeting length to 40mins, so I'm scheduling three meetings at the top of the hour for 2pm, 3pm, 4pm. If they're enforcing the limit, we'll take 20 minute breaks from the video and then resume (if they're not enforcing it, we'll just stay in the first meeting): 2pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77783532108?pwd=NnlPNkFwRnlvYzladERxOWhBWjRVdz09 3pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72193397457?pwd=OENBejEvVGpwZUlvRVlHV2I5eVJWZz09 4pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76120270082?pwd=U0NMRkkzZndMVUpJMWhLVjQrdFRaQT09 The password on all: 4RakuRoll If there's any questions, try the the sanfrancisco-perl mailing list (info on that is at the sf.pm.org page) You can also try me directly, doomvox at gmail. From doomvox at gmail.com Wed Jun 17 14:06:46 2020 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:06:46 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Raku study group at 2pm on Sunday the 21th Message-ID: And one more time, it's back to the future with our favorite 100-year language, Raku: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/271359904/ With a free account, zoom technically limits meeting length to 40mins, so I'm scheduling three meetings at the top of the hour for 2pm, 3pm, 4pm. If they're enforcing the limit, we'll take 20 minute breaks from the video and then resume (if they're not enforcing it, we'll just stay in the first meeting): 2pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79861054934?pwd=cFVPczhoK0dheVJHTWNSMEFnQk9JZz09 3pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77524516019?pwd=Ty9aUVpvVVhYZzc5RllRalVYeFBaUT09 4pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73044644949?pwd=RFJRdVhzTkI3RFJ3bjc1SjB5Z0NiQT09 The password on all: 4RakuRoll If there's any questions, try the the sanfrancisco-perl mailing list (info on that is at the sf.pm.org page) You can also try me directly, doomvox at gmail. From doomvox at gmail.com Sun Jun 21 15:49:24 2020 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:49:24 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] A bonus Raku Study Group at 7pm Message-ID: I made a scheduling mistake for the meetup group for today's Raku Study Group, originally I left it at the default of 7pm. Just in case anyone is looking for us at 7pm, I scheduled another one for tonight: The link for the 7pm meeting: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/271442465/ And the zoom link is: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71131468260?pwd=M1JlbnZ5NWkzd1hjckRhb0h2WEErQT0909 From dean at fragfest.com.au Wed Jun 24 14:15:27 2020 From: dean at fragfest.com.au (Dean Hamstead) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:15:27 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Perl 7 announced Message-ID: <07aa559ee45f47fb616a8f07334a427e@fragfest.com.au> https://news.perlfoundation.org/post/perl_7_announced_sawyerx_conference The Perl programming language will take a strategic step forward with the planned release of Perl 7. This development, announced by Sawyer X at the Perl Conference in the Cloud, will enable usability enhancements as standard and disable antiquated behaviours. Perl 7 will make it easier to attract new developers and add quality-of-life improvements for existing developers while maintaining broad compatibility with existing codebases. This paves the way for future major versions enabling further and more significant improvements to the language. Out-of-the-box settings of Perl 7 include strict language syntax which improves code quality and consistency, as well as other modern defaults. A compatibility mode allows version 7 and later Perl to operate with older defaults such as those from Perl 5, so older scripts and modules can still be used unmodified. Overall, the change to Perl 7 should reduce the tribal knowledge required to get applications up and running quickly and reliably. The changes that enable Perl 7 are under active development and major stakeholders are testing alpha code. Release candidates will be made available over coming months and community engagement and feedback is welcome. Full details of the changes are outlined by brian d foy on Perl.com Ken Power, Vice President of Product Development, cPanel L.L.C. is pleased with the announcement. He commented: "We?re very excited about the announcement of Perl 7! More than just a new version or a number, it represents a sustainable path forward for the Perl language and community. It represents an opportunity to rejuvenate interest in Perl, to attract new developers, to grow the community, and provide assurance for companies like cPanel that the language can meet the expectations of the modern developer." What about Perl 5? Perl is an important component of many GNU/Linux and Unix systems, and used in software such as Git, autoconf, and GNU parallels. First released by Larry Wall in 1994, Perl 5 was a major write to the language he invented as a personal work project in 1987. Perl popularized regular expressions, a feature now found in almost every mainstream language, and was instrumental in the advancement of the Web in its early days. Perl releases on a yearly schedule. The current release is v5.32, shipped in June 2020 which will go into long term support once the new version is released. This support is expected to be tailed off between 2025 and 2030, allowing time for organisations to plan the changes needed to accommodate newer releases. (What about Perl 6?) Stuart Mackintosh, President of The Perl Foundation stated: "On behalf of The Perl Foundation, I want to thank the people who have invested a great deal of time and effort planning this release and the volunteers and companies who have supported and sponsored our work." More information For more information about this announcement, please contact The Perl Foundation press office at press at perlfoundation.org Technical discussions are taking place on the Perl IRC channels and around the Conference in the Cloud this week. General discussion uses the hashtag #Perl7. _______________________________________________ Sydney-pm mailing list Sydney-pm at pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sydney-pm From doomvox at gmail.com Wed Jun 24 16:56:45 2020 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:56:45 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] The raku study group, sunday at 2pm, June 28th Message-ID: And once again, the return of the son of the Raku study group that strikes back. Sunday, 2pm, on June 28th, via zoom... RSVP if you're so inclined: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/271506879/ With a free account, zoom technically limits meeting length to 40mins, so I'm scheduling three meetings at the top of the hour for 2pm, 3pm, 4pm. If they're enforcing the limit, we'll take 20 minute breaks from the video and then resume (if they're not enforcing it, we'll just stay in the first meeting). 2pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76308761256?pwd=ZEQ2d1JiRDRnY3FHQlNQdUxUMzZwZz09 3pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73583495595?pwd=a3NubVRTSDkwOTJtV051dm9WajE0dz09 4pm: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73441905928?pwd=cjR5d3orZ2s5aGtybmk2MlhGSkFpUT09 From merlyn at stonehenge.com Mon Jun 29 11:18:37 2020 From: merlyn at stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:18:37 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] I'm looking for work Message-ID: <86tuyt68hu.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> My previous contract ended last week. Perl would be the easiest sell, although I do have other skills. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/Dart consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. Still trying to think of something clever for the fourth line of this .sig