Jan 1, 2014 by chromatic

Perl had a great year in 2013. Here are some highlights.

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Oct 28, 2013 by chromatic

Ever had a program crash and wanted to get more details about where and why? The CPAN module Carp::Always is perfect for this.

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Aug 29, 2012 by chromatic

Thanks to Torsten Raudssus, who wrote in with this announcement. What is Plat_Forms? Plat_Forms is a contest and competition in which top-class teams of three programmers compete to implement the same requirements for a web-based system within two days, using…

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Aug 27, 2012 by chromatic

editor’s note: an earlier version of this article appeared at The Reluctant Perl Programmer. Per the suggestion of Ask Bjørn Hansen, this revision appears on Perl.com. Who We Are We all love Perl for different reasons. Some of us are…

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Feb 2, 2012 by chromatic

Thanks to Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ for coordinating entries into the Plat_Forms 2012 web development contest. This annual contest pits some of the best developers of frameworks and languages against each other to solve real problems. Perl developers have participated for several…

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Aug 3, 2011 by chromatic

Christian Walde demonstrates that even ActivePerl users on Windows can use CPAN-out of the box.

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Jun 8, 2011 by chromatic

Perl 5.14 provides a new feature called unicode_strings to improve Unicode string handling.

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May 24, 2011 by chromatic

Perl 5.14 loads IO::File on demand for autovivified filehandles.

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May 18, 2011 by chromatic

Perl 5.14 adds non-destructive substitution.

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May 16, 2011 by chromatic

Perl 5.14 adds a package BLOCK declaration.

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Feb 2, 2011 by chromatic

Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ has sent out a call for attention for the 2011 Perl QA Hackathon: The Perl QA hackathon 2011 is taking place from Saturday, April 16th to Monday, April 18th 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Attendance is gratis. We…

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Oct 29, 2010 by chromatic

Thanks to Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ for sending along this notice about the Plat_Forms 2011 web development contest. Unlike other comparisons of programming languages (such as the great unmaintainable speed-tweakers micromeasurement contest and This Is Odiously Bad Empiricism), Plat_Forms features real teams…

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Oct 22, 2010 by chromatic

Perl productivity has suffered this month with JT Smith’s announcement of The Lacuna Expanse, a web-based space empire strategy game. As with most of Smith’s projects, TLE uses Perl extensively. Perl.com recently conducted an email interview to explore the world behind the game world.

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Sep 13, 2010 by chromatic

Moritz Lenz is a contributor to Perl 6 and Rakudo Perl 6. You may know him as the writer of the popular Perlgeek.de Perl 6 blog or a chief wrangler of the Perl 6 test suite. Here are his own words on Perl 6 and Rakudo.

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Aug 31, 2010 by chromatic

Carl Mäsak is a developer of Rakudo Perl 6 and arguably the most dedicated bug wrangler. He’s contributed to more bug reports than anyone else. If you find that Rakudo does not do as you expect, you’ll likely talk to him on #perl6 for help triaging and categorizing your bug.

In his own words, here’s how he’s helped make Perl 6 real.

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Aug 20, 2010 by chromatic

Modern Perl developments provide better capabilities for abstraction and reusable code. Rethinking a project more than a decade old with modern techniques demonstrates how much Perl has improved-and how far it could go.

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Aug 11, 2010 by chromatic

Jonathan Worthington is one of the lead developers of Rakudo Perl 6. In this interview he discusses the project, its future, and what to expect from this exciting new language.

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Jul 29, 2010 by chromatic

The first Rakudo Star release is out, making Perl 6 available to a wider range of users. Welcome to the new era of Perl.

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Jul 21, 2010 by chromatic

Welcome to the new Perl.com! It’s a great time to program Perl, and our intent is that Perl.com can show off our language, libraries, and community.

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Apr 20, 2010 by chromatic

Perl 5.12 has just come out. A rejuvenated development process helps ensure a bright future for Perl as it enters its third decade of making easy things easy and hard things possible. Here’s what you can expect when you upgrade…

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