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* Perl News

The theme for YAPC::Europe is "Social Perl". If you have something to say about
this, submit your proposals now! Hackathon proposals are due on Sunday May 13.
Papers are due before the end of the month:

http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/cfh.html
http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/cfp.html

The Perl QA wiki (perl-qa@perl.org) has moved, thanks to Andy Armstrong and his
anti-spam measures:

http://perl-qa.hexten.net

Bob Free (who you should remember from the most recent Perl Lightning Articles) has announced
a new site for Perl and OpenGL developers. Don't worry; you don't have to solve matrix
transformations in your sleep (or even know what that means) to participate and use Perl to make pretty 3D graphics:

http://www.opengl.org/news/comments/graphcomp_launches_pogl_perl_opengl_developer_site_today/

If you're in the London area, there's a free Perl Training session led by veteran Perl guru Dave Cross on June 2, 2007. Unfortunately, it's full. Fortunately, more demand will make it more likely that this will happen again!

http://london.pm.org/teach-in

The Nordic Perl Workshop has gathered material for its talks:

http://conferences.yapceurope.org/npw2007/wiki?node=Talks

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33245
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33246

* Perl at O'Reilly

The previous link indicates that the work of various Perl 6 implementations
has started to converge, from various little Perl 6-like languages living in
various states in the Pugs tree to the Perl 6 implementation on Parrot.
With that in mind, Jonathan Scott Duff started to explore the practical
aspects of Perl 6 that you can use right now through the Pugs implementation.
Here's how everyday Perl 5 concepts translate into clearer and more powerful Perl 6 code:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/05/10/everyday-perl-6.html

The BBC sponsored the free Perl training mentioned earlier. Here are the words from Dave Cross himself:

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

Why did the Beeb do this? Like many other companies in London, they're having trouble
hiring high quality Perl hackers. Curtis Poe, an American goth in London, analyzed the
situation and why the problem came about:

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

Your editor found a face-slapper in one of our books:

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

... then revealed that some people in the Python world wanted Perl 6 Roles in
Python 3000:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/traitsroles_in_python_3000.html

James Turner launched a comic strip featuring, among other animals,
A Very Familiar Camel:

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

That wraps it up for this week. Remember, though--you can use everything in Scott Duff's Perl 6 article right now!

Now back to hacking Parrot to make Perl 6 even better,
- c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera

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