What's new in Perl 5.8.0
It’s been nearly six months since the release of Perl 5.8.0, but many people still haven’t upgraded to it. We’ll take a look at some of the new features it provides and describe why you should investigate them yourself….
How Perl Powers Christmas
You know, it’s not easy having the happiness of billions of children around the world resting with your organization, and it’s even harder on the IT department. The incorporated elves and pixiefolk of the North Pole, under the direction…
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Lightweight Languages
What happens if you get a bunch of academic computer scientists and implementors of languages such as Perl, Python, Smalltalk and Curl, and lock them into a room for a day? Bringing together the academic and commercial sides of…
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This Week on p5p 2001/10/21
This fortnight on perl5-porters (08-21 October 2001) Notes This Week on P5P 5.8.0 TODO POD Testing ${^TAINT} AUTOLOAD and packages B::Parrot Miscellaneous Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is…
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This Week on p5p 2001/10/07
Notes This Week on P5P chromatic Call for PerlIO bugs Attributes are broken Multiple FETCHes Code cleanups Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes…
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This Week on p5p 2001/09/03
Notes This Week on P5P Testing, testing Coderef-in-@INC Default random seed local chdir() File::Spec Smoking! Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and…
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Perl Helps The Disabled
As part of Mark-Jason Dominus’s Lightning Talks at the 2001 O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Jon Bjornstad gave a talk about a Perl/Tk program he wrote to help a mute quadriplegic friend, Sue Simpson, speak and better use her computer. Jon’s…
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This Week on p5p 2001/08/27
Notes This Week on P5P $] and v-strings Callbacks in the core CvMETHOD and ->can() Coderefs in @INC (again) Malloc Madness Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the…
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This Week on p5p 2001/08/15
Notes This Week on P5P POD Specification Unicode Normalisation Threading Semantics perlmodstyle Shrinking down the Perl install Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month….
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Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001
Last year Europe had its first Yet Another Perl Conference. Leon Brocard, Jon Peterson and Greg McCarroll did a marvellous job organizing this grassroots conference - themed “The Art of Perl” - from scratch within two months. For the…
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This Week in Perl 6 (5 - 11 August 2001)
Notes This Week in Perl 6 Notes Damian’s Perl 6 Talk, Take Two Opcode Dispatching Modules given (Properties) { when: Proper } Eval/o’s Vs. Evil Woes PDDs Released You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending…
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This Fortnight In Perl 6 (July 22 - Aug. 4, 2001)
Notes Table of Contents •The Perl Conference 5.0 •The Perl 5 Porters Meeting •The State Of The Onion •The P 6 Q & A •Sarathy Speaks •The Opcode BOF •The Mailing Lists You can subscribe to an email version of…
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This Week on p5p 2001/08/07
Notes This Week on P5P Subroutine Prototypes -Wall fixes The Great SDK Debate New Stuff! Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions…
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People Behind Perl : Artur Bergman
We continue our series on the People Behind Perl by interviewing Artur Bergman. Artur is a recent addition to the legion of Perl developers, but he’s already making extremely big waves. Artur picked up the gauntlet of the new…
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This Week on p5p 2001/07/30
Notes This Week on P5P Hash “clamping” P5P Meeting Asynchronous Callbacks h2ph iThreads Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions to the perl5-porters biographies…
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The State of the Onion 5
Larry’s State of the Onion presentation this year was, as every year, completely different from previous years. As he noted, previous talks have been about chemistry, theology, biology, and music; this year, for once, Larry actually talked about Perl….
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This Week on p5p 2001/07/16
Notes This Week on P5P 5.7.2 is out! Many threading fixes package; SUPER:: debate rages on Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month. Changes and additions…
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This Week on p5p 2001/07/09
Notes This Week on P5P No 5.8.0 Yet New Modules Numbers, numbers, numbers PerlIO considered evil Asynchronous Callbacks Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the current year and month….
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People Behind Perl: Nathan Torkington
So you use Perl, and you probably know that it was brought to you by “Larry Wall and a cast of thousands”. But do you know these people that make up the Perl development team? Every month, we’re going…
