Apocalypse 3
Editor’s Note: this Apocalypse is out of date and remains here for historic reasons. See Synopsis 03 for the latest information. Table of Contents RFC 025: Operators: Multiway comparisons RFC 320: Allow grouping of -X file tests…
Asymmetric Cryptography in Perl
Introduction Symmetric cryptography allows Alice to exchange secret messages with Bob over the network, but only after they have shared a secret key. If Alice and Bob don’t live within commutable distance, or are unable to meet in person…
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Parrot : Some Assembly Required
Last week, the first public version of Parrot was released. This week, we’re going to take a close look at what Parrot is, how you can get hold of it and play with it, and what we intend for…
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wxPerl: Another GUI for Perl
wxPerl? If you don’t just use Perl for creating CGI scripts, you’ll probably have to create some kind of front-end for your applications sooner or later. You might use the Curses library, but if you want a nice GUI, you…
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This Week on Perl 6 (2 - 8 September 2001)
Notes This Week in Perl 6 News %MY:: Goodness Prototypes Documents Released Math Functions To Add Parroty Bits You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk….
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Changing Hash Behaviour with tie
Introduction In my experience, hashes are just about the most useful built-in datatype that Perl has. They are useful for so many things - from simple lookup tables to complex data structures. And, of course, most Perl Objects have…
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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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This Week on Perl 6 (26 August - 1 September 2001)
Notes This Week in Perl 6 News Notes Expunge Implicit @_ Passing Finalization and Deterministic Destruction Multiple Dispatch on Objects Program Metadata ! versus >= Parroty Bits Last Words You can…
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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 $] and v-strings Callbacks in the core CvMETHOD and ->can() Coderefs in @INC (again) Malloc Madness Various Please send corrections and additions to perl-thisweek-YYYYMM@simon-cozens.org where YYYYMM is the…
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This Week on Perl 6 (19 - 25 August 2001)
Notes This Week in Perl 6 News Closures Method Signatures Foo::$bar Perl 6 Internals (Yes, There Are Some…) More Modules Last Words You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending…
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Choosing a Templating System
Introduction Go on, admit it: You’ve written a templating system. It’s OK, nearly everyone has at some point. You start with something beautifully simple like $HTML =~ s/\$(\w+)/${$1}/g and end up adding conditionals, loops and includes until you’ve created…
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This Week on Perl 6 (12 - 18 August 2001)
Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to perl6-digest-subscribe@netthink.co.uk. Please send corrections and additions to bwarnock@capita.com. There were 44 messages across 10 threads, with 26 authors contributing. The Modules Plan (21…
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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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Quantum::Entanglement
There Is More Than One World (In Which) To Do It With the possible exception of many physicists, quantum mechanics is one of the stranger things to have emerged from science over the last hundred years. It has led…
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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…
