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unread message yet! There's perly goodness here.

Here's what's new this fortnight.

* Perl News

Parrot 0.4.12 escaped. This version has a pun in the title, a literary
quote in the release announcement, and is faster and uses less memory. If
you're not careful, you might have to port your favorite language to
Parrot this summer. (As of a few minutes ago, the development version of
Parrot is even faster still.)

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/24/1812230

OSCON 2007 registration is open:

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/register.html

Gnat is particular pleased with the schedule:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/whats_new_with_1.html

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33302
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33346

* Perl at O'Reilly

Perl has a history of copious and useful documentation--not just of core
modules, but of the best CPAN modules as well. Yet even the venerable
perldoc utility is not the only way to read, or browse, documentation.
The Pod::POM::Web module provides a different way to find information
about the modules you have installed. Here's how it works:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/cpan_module_review_podpomweb.html

Perl 5.10 is on its way, especially now that pumpking Rafael Garcia-Suarez
has returned from his honeymoon (congratulations!). Why is this release
important? Besides fixing plenty of bugs and including several
performance improvements, it has a wide list of new features. Adriano
Ferreira discusses good reasons to help get a shiny new Perl out the door:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/soon_a_perl_with_new_switches_1.html

...but Adriano is not content to let Perl 5 get all the attention. Recent
(and recurring) debates over readability and maintainability made their
way to the Perl 6 language mailing list. The focus was, get this, on the
use of semicolons:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/why_insisting_on_semicolons.html

Your editor jumped into the fray as well, only to rephrase his favorite
law of maintainable programming: don't hire monkeys. This time, he
wonders if certain programming languages force people to write bad code:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/does_your_programming_language.html

...and then poked the "I writed a DSL!!" kids with a stick:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/the_is_it_a_dsl_or_an_api_ten.html

* Other Interesting Tidbits

Jimmy Gutterman asks if you work better when you work for free:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/do_you_work_bet.html

Tim O'Reilly announced a Real World Haskell book:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/real_world_hask.html

Mike Hendrickson analyzed the entire computer book market in Q1 2007, related
to programming languages (buy more Perl books):

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_10.html

Nitesh Dhanjani wondered how to retain smart people in your organization:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/the_string_theory_of_how_to_re.html

Now back to hacking Parrot to make Perl 6 even better,
-c

chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera

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