From doomvox at gmail.com Thu May 13 19:07:03 2021 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 19:07:03 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 05/16 at 1pm PDT Message-ID: F. S. Boas, Shakspere and his Predecessors" (1896): "All these dramas introduce us into highly artificial societies, whose civilization is ripe unto rottenness. Admidst such media abnormal conditions of brain and emotion are generated, and intricate cases of conscience demand a solution by unprecedented methods. Thus throughout these plays we move along dim untrodden paths, and at the close our feeling is neither of simple joy or pain; we are excited, fascinated, perplexed, for the issues raised preclude a completely satisfactory outcome ... " The Raku Study Group May 16th, 2021 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88920904857?pwd=Z0N6RlRlblB0L0MycENnVjRsZ3lsUT09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/278173084/ From wjm1 at caa.columbia.edu Fri May 14 15:41:30 2021 From: wjm1 at caa.columbia.edu (William Michels) Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 15:41:30 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] Perl5 video (new!) Message-ID: Hello Perl-fans, I found this recent video on YouTube and it's refreshingly upbeat about Perl programming: "Good Reasons to Use Perl in 2021" https://youtu.be/AGoLnnOFBoc Best, Bill. From doomvox at gmail.com Thu May 27 12:39:01 2021 From: doomvox at gmail.com (Joseph Brenner) Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 12:39:01 -0700 Subject: [sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 05/30 at 1pm PDT Message-ID: Lester Bangs on Robert Quine playing with the Voidoids: "Onstage he projects the cool remote stance learned from his jazz mentors-- shades, beard, expressionless face, bald head, old sportcoat-- but his solos always burn, the more so because there is always something constricted in them, pent up, waiting to be released." The Raku Study Group May 30th, 2021 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81815169516?pwd=Y29PKy84Q2JjS0t2QkNoWnByYllnQT09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/278452690/