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…
Notes Error number parsing VMS hackery The (f)crypt of mystery Yet more self-ties Rsync vs. FTP’ing the patches Changes to README.aix The Regex Stack Problem Things nobody’s fixed Craig Berry Various Notes You can subscribe to an email version…
(This is a slightly edited and expanded version of the reply I sent to perl6-meta@perl.org spurred by Mark-Jason Dominus sending the URL to his critique on the Perl 6 RFC process.) I agree partly on Mark-Jason Dominus’ critique, but…
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…
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….
$16,500 pledged, another $11,000 needed to liberate Damian Conway. As reported earlier, the Yet Another Society (YAS) is putting together a grant to Monash University, Australia. The grant will fund Damian Conway’s full-time work on Perl for a year….
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…
Notes What is our Unicode model? Why not use sfio? More than 256 Files / sysopen What if cc changes? Unicode on EBCDIC AIX Is Confused Unicode split fixed! Fixes to Carp open() might fail Perl 5 is 5!…
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…
-> 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,…
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…
Everyone who has read the Camel Book knows that the three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience and hubris. Most of the columns that appear here at www.perl.com have to do, in one way or another, with either…
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…
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…
Dr. Damian Conway is best known in the United States for authoring Object Oriented Perl, published by Manning. His lectures at Perl conferences are becoming legendary and are a joy for Perl hackers of all levels. I managed to…
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…
“The Effort to Write Perl 6 Has Begin In Earnest” Before Stuck How? Tuesday What About Perl 6? Questions Will Perl 6 be in C++? When can we expect the grand plan? Will Perl 6 have a spec? Will…
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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