Perl.com Update
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Greetings, Perl newsletter subscribers. This biweekly
newsletter goes out
to you, subscribers, every two weeks, and it's full of
information about
Perl. You can see where the name and vague description come
from.
(Fortunately, the O'Reilly Perl books are not full of this
laborious
prose. That leaves more room for jokes about '60s sitcoms.)
Here's what you should know about the Perl world lately.
* Perl News
The Russian Perl Workshop will take place in three weeks in
Moscow, on
October 26, 2007. Sign up soon, there's a 100-person cap:
http://perlrussia.ru/en/
Shlomi Fish announced the Call for Papers to the Israel Perl
Workshop,
which will take place on December 31, 2007:
http://act.perl.org.
il/ilpw2007/
barbie announced the call for papers for the UKUUG
conference at the end
of March next year in Birmingham, U.K. He would like to see
several Perl
talks. (Birmingham is lovely, so take this chance to go.)
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/03/0147234
sartak jumped into the burgeoning world of Perl REPLs (Read,
Evaluate,
Print, Loop -- think of Ruby or Python's interactive modes)
by
connecting PPI to Devel::REPL. There's goodness there:
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/22/2059211
Several of the Pugs hackers behind KP6 (a bootstrapped Perl
6
implementation written in itself) have hooked up a backend
to SBCL
(a Common Lisp implementation). This means that KP6 runs on
Perl 5 as
well as SBCL:
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/23/0414244
David Golden announced a beta period for CPAN::Reporter, a
tool which
helps CPAN users report test successes and failures:
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/1611227
Adam Kennedy started a discussion about the dual-life
policy, where some
modules ship with the core Perl distribution but receive
regular updates
on the CPAN. Your operating system vendor may not
necessarily support this
scheme soundly:
ht
tp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/26/171235
Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:
h
ttp://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/30/0459233
http://u
se.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/34609
* Perl at O'Reilly
Perl is an operator-oriented language. Few other modern and
popular
languages allow a richness of expression and extension
through
defining new operators (especially when combined with
multiple
dispatch). Perl 6 takes this even further. Fortunately,
Adriano
Ferreira continues his series of microposts on Perl 6
operators,
including the repetition operators, coercion operators, and
comparison operators:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onl
amp/blog/2007/09/yap6_operator_repeat_operators_1.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlam
p/blog/2007/09/yap6_operator_coercion_operato.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlam
p/blog/2007/09/yap6_operator_comparisons_part.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onl
amp/blog/2007/10/yap6_operator_comparisons_part_1.html
Kevin Farnham and Tim O'Reilly both looked at the work in
progress for the
Parrot virtual machine and saw signs that it might enable
better concurrency
for the parallel future of programming:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linu
x/blog/2007/09/open_source_thoughts_parrot_an_1.html
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/parrot_a
nd_mult.html
Your editor wondered if the embarrassment of riches of
options in the free
software world was really a barrier to adoption:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/
blog/2007/09/the_paradox_of_choice_in_the_f.html
... then pondered the four freedoms of software as they
apply to software
services:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/
blog/2007/10/the_four_freedoms_applied_to_s.html
Curtis "Ovid" Poe reviewed several of his work
experiences to find that
about 20 percent actually cared about security:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/09/insec
urity.html
That's it for this week. If you see Jonathan Scott Duff or
Larry Wall,
ask them when their articles are coming in.
Still waiting for SOTO 11,
- c
chromatic
editor Perl.com, et al
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