Larry Wall interviewed in San Francisco
Larry was interviewed in San Francisco at Erlang & Elixir Factory SF Bay Area 2017 conference
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Get to grips with Prove, Perl's test workhorse
The ubiquitous test runner is a powerful tool for your arsenal
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People of Perl 6: Carl Mäsak
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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People of Perl 6: Jonathan Worthington
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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Welcome Rakudo Star
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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Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...
I think, to most people, scripting is a lot like obscenity. I can’t define it, but I’ll know it when I see it. Here are some common memes floating around: Simple language “Everything is a string” Rapid prototyping Glue…
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Everyday Perl 6
Perl 6 will soon be here. How will programming in Perl 6 be different from programming in Perl 5 for your average Perl programmer? The answer is: very different yet very much the same. A Perl 6 program viewed…
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The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing
Perl 6 is not finished, but you can already play with it. I hope this article will encourage you to try it. Begin by installing Pugs, a Perl 6 compiler implemented in Haskell. Note that you will also need…
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The State of the Onion 10
Welcome to the tenth State of the Perl Onion. For those of you who are unfamiliar with my methods, this is the annual speech wherein I ramble on about various things that are only marginally related to the state…
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What Is Perl 6
In the sixth year of Perl 6’s multi-year reinvention, some of its developers reflected on why it was taking so long.
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The State of the Onion 9
For the last couple of years, we’ve been homeschooling our two youngest kids. Gloria has been making sure they learn the easy subjects like history and mathematics. I’ve been making sure they also learn the hard subjects like, um,…
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This Week in Perl 6, August 17-23, 2005
All- Welcome to another Monday summary, which hopefully provides some evidence that Mondays can get better. It always feels like writing summaries is an uphill battle, so perhaps I should switch to writing about Perl 6 Language first and…
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This Week in Perl 6, Through August 14, 2005
As you will note from the date in the title, it’s been a short week. We’re switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to make life easier for the Perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being…
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This Week in Perl 6, August 2-9, 2005
All- Welcome to another summary, brought to you by Chinese food. The attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that…
