Dec 18, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

According to the perlhist man page, Perl was first released twelve years ago today, on December 18, 1987. Congratulations to Larry Wall on the occasion of Perl’s twelfth birthday!…

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Dec 12, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Meta-Information 5.005_63 Released Development Continues on Ilya’s Patches Regex Optimizations PREPARE XSLoader Change to xsubpp Path Location New Improved File::Find DB_File Locking Technique use Parameters in XS Module Initializations next in XS-invoked Perl subroutines -Dp improvement Log::Agent Getopt::Long…

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Dec 5, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Meta-Information m//g in List Context eof() at the Beginning of the Input Shadow Passwords Continue Perl, EBCDIC, and Unicode lock Keyword Safe::Hole Change to xsubpp Euphoria Talarian SmartSockets perlxstut and perlxs Additions Reset umasks Mailling List Archives Unavailable…

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Nov 30, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Sins of Perl Revisited -> Sins of Perl Revisited Implicit Behaviors and Hidden Context Dependencies To Paren || ! To Paren? Global Variables References vs. Non-references No Prototypes No Compiler Support for I/O or Regex Objects Haphazard Exception Model New…

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Nov 28, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes New Meta-Information Thread Model Discussion Discussion of Line Disciplines Continues Shadow Passwords Bugs in NT Perl Sockets? Run Out of File Descriptors Lexical Variable Leak Control-Backslash Bitwise Operators Taint Bug? next Outside a Block Quiet List Various Notes…

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Nov 21, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

This week on perl5-porters (15-21 November 1999) Notes XSLoader.pm Threads Shared Interpreter threads (the current model) Cloned interpreter threads (upcoming in 5.005_63) chomp() Threading and Regexes Safe::Hole PREPARE Marshalling Modules Local Address in LWP local()izing select() and chdir() Wandering Environment…

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Nov 16, 1999 by Nathan Torkington

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Nov 14, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes Lexical variables and eval More About Line Disciplines link on WinNT Regex Optimization Threads on Solaris Regex Engine Reentrancy Big Files Continue Regexp Objects again Unicode Support on EBCDIC Machines Marshalling Modules Got Perl? localtime() has Another Bug!…

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Nov 7, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes glob case-sensitivity D’oh::Year and Y2K warnings Threading and Regexes Change to xsubpp utf8 Needs a New Pumpking STOP blocks map and grep in void context Data::Dumper and Regexp objects sort improvements IPv6 and Socket.pm New quotation characters system…

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Nov 3, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Notes glob case-sensitivity Perl under UNICOS New perlthread man page Threading and explicit unlocking Threading and Regexes pack t Template Happy Birthday CPAN! Local Address in LWP Return of ref prototype $^O sort improvements Shell.pm enhancements. Time Zone Output…

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Oct 22, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Short guide to DBI (The Perl Database Interface Module) General information about relational databases Relational databases started to get to be a big deal in the 1970’s, andthey’re still a big deal today, which is a little peculiar, because they’re…

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Oct 18, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

Happy Birthday Perl 5 The first full release of Perl 5 was exactly five years ago, on 17 October, 1994. (Not 18 October as perlhist says.) Happy birthday, Perl, and congratulations to Larry and the cast of thousands! Oh, and…

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Oct 17, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

(11-17 October 1999) -> Introduction New Development Release 5.005_62 Unicode Character Classes Module Bundling and the proposed import pragma use fields allows overlapping member names PREPARE functions and my Class $foo declarations goto Out of Conditional Bug Regex Range Bug…

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Oct 17, 1999 by Mark-Jason Dominus

(18-24 October 1999) -> $^O STOP blocks and the broken compiler Blank lines in POD PERL_HEADER environment variable Out of date modules in Perl distribution Enhanced UNIVERSAL::isa sort improvements glob case-sensitivity reftype function New perlthread man page Win32 and fork()…

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Oct 15, 1999 by Brett Berry and Lee Minniear

Table of Contents • Essential Perl/Tk Programming • A Graphic Authorizing Example • TK Overview • A Pay Calculator Example • Creating A Window • Adding A Menubar • Adding Choices To A Menubar • More Menubar Choices •…

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Sep 28, 1999 by Ian Clark

Overview August 21 - 24, 1999 My main reason for attending the Open Source Conference is to observe Open Source developments and to gather business intelligence for Chevron. I learned Python. I also concentrated on understanding the business case…

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Sep 28, 1999 by Chip Salzenberg

Introduction One of the more interesting talks at the O’Reilly 1999 Open Source Convention was by Chip Salzenberg, one of the core developers of Perl. He described his work on Topaz, a new effort to completely re-write the internals…

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Sep 16, 1999 by Damian Conway

Introduction Damian Conway is the author of the newly released Object Oriented Perl, the first of a new series of Perl books from Manning. Object-oriented programming in Perl is easy. Forget the heavy theory and the sesquipedalian jargon: classes…

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Sep 16, 1999 by Brent Michalski

The Perl Conference brought us the first “White Camel” awards. The White Camel Awards were created to honor individuals who devote remarkable creativity, energy, and time to the non-technical work that supports Perl’s active and loyal user community. The…

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Aug 30, 1999 by Larry Wall

This talk was delivered by Larry Wall on August 23, 1999 at the Perl Conference 3.0 in Monterey, CA. (Note: most of the pictures this year were images of molecules that I animated using a program called RasMol, along…

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