Journal written by ambs and posted by grinder on 2008.07.02 8:35 The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in August 2008.
If you want to build and run Perl 6 today, you first check out parrot: svn co https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot A basic incantation for then building Perl 6 would be as follows : $ cd parrot/ perl ...
David Nicol: Does pushing all exceptions to @@ whenever $@ gets assigned to break anything? Abigail: In theory, it could, as @@ is a "normal" array that can be used as such.
June 24, 2008-ActiveState Software today released Komodo IDE 4.4, adding user requested timesaving features and performance improvements to the award-winning integrated development environment, including a ...
One thing I found unsettling was running this over our CPAN install: ack '^\s*exit\b' lib/perl5/ Admittedly, many of those were false positives, but not all of them were.
Sleep 2.1-b27 has been released . Sleep is an embeddable scripting language implemented in Java, and inspired by Perl and Objective-C. This release includes: a new java.util.List implementation to back Sleep ...
This site, though it doesn't seem to be updated too often, has some interesting Perl podcasts if you're into that sort of thing. So far, there are a few interesting...
Object-Relational Mapping is a method of mapping a relational database to a class structure in an object-oriented programming language. In simpler terms, it takes your database structure and creates an...
This is a clean and useful PDF of a presentation on clean and usable Perl! Seriously, this is a great look at busting some of the myths that Perl is...
A recent LiveJournal entry from pozorvlak is a really great essay on several of the good points that Perl has to offer. It pretty much touches on all the reasons...
Whatever language you choose to program in, here's an interesting and useful utility (written in Perl of course) that will count blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source...
Here's something interesting to look at - a new Perl widget library for web interfaces that works in the style of Gtk+. It incorporates the prototype JS library and has...
This is a great presentation from Tim Bunce that busts some of the typical Perl Myths that have been spreading across the internet. Namely that Perl is dead or dying,...
Here's another update on the progress of Perl 6 and Parrot for anyone following the development. This time it covers some interesting new developments to play with like a tool...
Object-Relational Mapping is a method of mapping a relational database to a class structure in an object-oriented programming language. In simpler terms, it takes your database structure and creates an...
