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November and December saw the usual monthly release of Parrot. However, November's release was particularly notable, as it was version 0.5.0. The minor version number increase came because it includes an implementation of the object design as specified in PDD15. This was a major piece of work, both in the implementation, and integration with existing language implementaitons. The 0.5.1 release was also quite exciting. The major work for this release ... read more |
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The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2008. In the past, we've supported Adam Kennedy's PPI, Nicholas Clark's work on Perl internals, Jouke Visser's pVoice, Chris Dolan on Perl::Critic and many others You don't have to have a large, complex, or lengthy project. You don't even have to be a Perl master or guru. If you have a good idea and ... read more |
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Today the Perl Foundation announces the release of Perl 5.10, the first major upgrade to the wildly popular dynamic programming language in over five years. This latest version builds on the successful 5.8.x series by adding powerful new language features and improving the Perl interpreter itself. The Perl development team, called the Perl Porters, has taken features and inspiration from the ambitious Perl 6 project, as well as from chiefly ... read more |
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It is with great pleasure that I announce the November 2007 status report for Patrick Michaud's Perl 6 Development Grant provided jointy by Mozilla Foundation and The Perl Foundation. It can be found at: "http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/35049":http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/35049 This is the first of four monthly status reports. As part of this grant, Patrick will use his use.perl.org journal to collect his writings regarding his work on Perl 6 Parrot. To see a list ... read more |
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It gives me great pleasure to announce that, last month, Chris Dolan successfully completed his "grant":http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/04/new_grant_awards.html to write 20 Perl-Best-Practices-inspired policies for "Perl::Critic.":http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/ There are several reasons why this wasn't posted sooner, but I apologise for the delay. Chris delivered 19 out of the 20 policies originally proposed, as one of the policies was implemented by another contributor prior to the start of the grant. During the course of this ... read more |