www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers ============================================================== The 3rd O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 23-27, 2001 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina Fueling the Open Source Alternative The Perl Conference 5, XTech2001 Conference on XML (in association with GCA), the 8th Tcl/Tk Conference, the 1st Conference on PHP - 14 tracks keep you informed on the latest innovations - http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ============================================================== Hello, world. This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Well, it looks like I've been making the news this week with the language-dev list, so maybe I should tell you about that... Remember Parrot, the April Fool's Joke, where I had Perl and Python joining forces to create a new language? Well, there was a serious side to that little prank. I recognised that the developer communities in both languages came up against the same problems and discussed a lot of the same issues; this would become especially important as people started developing Perl 6 and Python 3000. As a result, I set up the language-dev mailing list to encourage collaboration between programming language implementors. See the whole story on my weblog: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/440 And speaking of Perl 6, the development marches onwards, with the near finalisation of another Perl Design Document. Unfortunately, we're not able to bring you another Apocalypse from Larry at the moment, as he's still having problems with his health and now networking problems are adding to the misery, but it'll be along soon - be assured that we'll bring it to you as soon as we have it! http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals%40perl.org/msg03260.html Finally, Sun is running a survey on its Solaris Developer Connection web site asking which language people use for "web-based client applications", whatever they may be. At point of writing, Perl is blowing away the opposition with 51.4%, with JSP (16%) and PHP (10%) the closest competitors. This may, however, have something to do with the poll being posted to use.perl... http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/02/1225218&mode=thread&threshold= * What's new on www.perl.com? The Perl 5 Porters summary this week is back in my own hands, and features developments in module organisation and testing, a summary of Robin's fantastic work on B::Deparse, fixes and suggestions for Carp, Jeffrey Friedl's amazingly interesting regexp patch, as well as work on IBM 390 and UTS platforms and much, much more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/p5pdigest/20010702.html Bryan Warnock continues his fantastic work summarizing the Perl 6 mailing lists. As last week was not very busy, this summary covers the past fortnight, and brings talk of multiple inheritance, internal string APIs, and the astonishing fact that Perl doesn't suck after all. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/p6pdigest/20010703.html This week, we begin a new series on perl.com; we're bringing you interviews with the "People Behind Perl" - some of the people from the legions of developers and supporters that do all the behind-the-scenes work to make Perl the invaluable tool we've come to expect. This week, I talk to Nathan Torkington, long-time Perl developer, co-author of the Perl Cookbook and, more recently, Perl 6 project manager. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/03/nat.html Enjoy! SC ============================================================== Sponsored by Macromedia, Creators of ColdFusion Problems meeting tight deadlines? ColdFusion 4.5, the leading Web app server, has the solution with an integrated suite of visual tools, powerful server technology, and an open language environment. Download your FREE evaluation copy today at http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/network/04/allaire/coldfusion ============================================================== *** This Week's Features *** People Behind Perl: Nathan Torkington So you use Perl, and you probably know that it was brought to you by "Larry Wall and a cast of thousands". But do you know these people that make up the Perl development team? Simon Cozens talks to Nathan Torkington, a long-time Perl developer and a mainstay of the Perl community. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/03/nat.html *** Why Not Translate Perl to C? Mark-Jason Dominus explains why it might not be any faster to convert your code to a C program rather than let the Perl interpreter execute it. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/06/27/ctoperl.html *** Yet Another YAPC Report::Montreal Schuyler Erle gives a detailed report of all the exciting events at this year's Yet Another Perl Conference in Montreal. By his account, it appears to be an exciting time to be involved with the development of Perl. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/06/21/yapcreport.html *** Parse::RecDescent Tutorial Parse::RecDescent is a recursive descent parser generator designed to help Perl programmers who need to deal with any sort of structured data, from configuration files to mail headers to almost anything. It's even been used to parse other programming languages for conversion to Perl. Jeff Goff explains what Parse::RecDescent does, how to build up grammars, and how to use Parse::RecDescent in your programs. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/06/13/recdecent.html Sister Sites: --------------------------------- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com The Source for Open and Emerging Technologies. XML.com http://xml.com/ XML from the Inside Out. ONLamp.com http://onlamp.com O'Reilly Network's High-Performance Web Development Site. 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