Critique of the Perl 6 RFC Process

Table of Contents •Problems with Proposals of Major Changes •Problems with Proposals of Minor Changes •Miscellaneous Problems •Overall Problems •Bottom Line A Very Brief Summary Discussion of major changes is pointless in the absence of a familiarity with internals…

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This Week on p5p 2000/10/30

Notes sprintf Parameter Re-ordering The Dangers (and bugs) of Unicode Self-Tying Is Broken Configure Confused By Changing Architectures Encode Switch Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version of this summary by sending an empty message to p5p-digest-subscribe@plover.com….

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State of the Onion 2000

Hear Larry Wall’s Keynote (Because of the time length, we’ve broken up Larry Wall’s keynote at O’Reilly’s Open Source Roundtable into four seperate audio files.)   Part One MP3     RealPlayer   Part Two MP3     RealPlayer   Part Three MP3     RealPlayer   Q…

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Beginner's Introduction to Perl

Editor’s note: this venerable series is undergoing updates. You might be interested in the newer versions, available at: A Beginner’s Introduction to Perl 5.10 A Beginner’s Introduction to Files and Strings with Perl 5.10 A Beginner’s Introduction to Regular…

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Programming GNOME Applications with Perl

-> Table of Contents •Architecture Introduction •Hello, World •Adding a Menu Bar •Adding an About Box •Adding More Chrome •Final Program GNOME is the Unix desktop. It’s a framework for writing graphical applications with Unix, providing drag-and-drop, interapplication communication,…

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This Week on p5p 2000/10/08

Notes Self-tying is broken Virtual values Why is unshift slow? More Perl hacking guidelines Integer and floating-point handling printf %v format bug fixed Jarkko impersonates me Various Notes First, the meta-news this week is that you have a new…

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Report from YAPC::Europe

YAPC::Europe::London -> This is written for those poor souls who couldn’t make it to give them aflavor of the wonderful event they missed. Despite being an ex-Londoner, I got on the wrong tube Friday morning. The train was packed and…

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Sapphire

Table of Contents •Design Principles •So, uh, what is it? •Where did it get? •What else can be done? •What can’t be done? •Structure of a Sapphire •The future of Sapphire •Reflections through a Sapphire Naming languages after stones…

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Guide to the Perl 6 Working Groups

Table of Contents •Announcements and Overviews •Internals •Language   •perl6-language-data   •perl6-language-datetime   •perl6-language-errors   •perl6-language-flow   •perl6-language-io   •perl6-language-mlc   •perl6-language-objects   •perl6-language-regex   •perl6-language-strict   •perl6-language-subs   •perl6-language-unlink •Miscellaneous Larry said at the Perl conference this summer that the old model of Perl development was not working well…

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Report from the Perl Conference

Were do I begin? Like Willy Wonka said, “..the beginning is a very good place to start…” So let’s start with my journey to the conference. Day 0: July 15, 2000 My flight to San Jose wasn’t delayed too…

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Choosing a Perl Book

There are a huge number of books out there about Perl. A quick search on Amazon reveals 362 books; allowing for false positives and books where Perl is a minor part, I’d conservatively estimate there to be over 250 books…

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Reports from YAPC 19100

Lightning Reports from YAPC -> Reports from: •Schuyler D. Erle •Avi •Gene Boggs: Day 2 •Sean M. Burke •Uri Guttman •Brad Murray •Lisa Nyman: Report from a First-time Presenter •Clinton Pierce •Nathan Torkington •Adam Turoff •Mark-Jason Dominus Last month Yet…

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This Week on p5p 2000/07/09

Notes NEW! RDF Available Bug Database buildtoc use namespace Unicode Input Solution tr/a-z-0// Mutual use sprintf tests Complex Expressions in Formats Threading Failure Test Case What does changing PL_sh_path do? UNTIE Method Sarathy Fixes a Bug that Nobody Knew…

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This Week on p5p 2000/07/02

Notes More Unicode Unicode Handling HOWTO Unicode Regex Matching I18N FAQ Normalization Simon Stops Working on Unicode Speeding up method lookups my PACKAGE $foo cfgperl Missing Methods Signals on Windows New File::Spec Another depressing regex engine bug s/// Appears…

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