Stories for 2007-10-28

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In this issue:
    * Perl standard
    * OSDC.tw 2008 calls for paper
    * TPR interviews Jesse Vincent, Perl 6 Project Manager
    * New CPAN Distributions for October 27, 2007

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| Perl standard                                                      |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday October 27, @12:31 (User Journa|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/1835238              |
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A recent [0]clpmisc [1]post ([2]link @ [3]GG) resulted in a largely
obnoxious and long thread in which amongst other things people talked
about the already oft discussed question re whether Perl should be
standardized or not.

In a [4]post ([5]link @ GG) I just read today, [6]Peter J. Holzer -in
reply to a mention of which Larry Rosler's famous [7]"ANSI Standard
Perl?" interview- pretty much settles the down the question:

  The argument about the "marketing value" of a standard has some
  merit. But a standard is neither necessary nor sufficient for
  success, even in corporate and governmental environments.
  There is no Windows ISO standard, no Java ISO standard, and yet these
  are used very widely. OTOH there is an ISO (or at least ANSI) CPU
  standard (for a subset of the SPARC ABI, IIRC) which nobody cares
  about and I think the Pascal or BASIC ISO standards are similarily
  inconsequential.

  Successful standards (like C90 or POSIX) are developed after there
  have been multiple implementations and when the implementors actually
  want to converge on a single standard. In the case of an open source
  interpreted language like perl5 there is little value in a standard.
  There is only one implementation, a second implementation is unlikely
  to happen (porting is almost always easier than rewriting from
  scratch) if it happens compatibility is probably only a minor goal.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/27/1835238

Links:
    0. news:comp.lang.perl.misc
    1. news:[email protected]
    2. http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
    3. http://groups.google.com/
    4. news:[email protected]
    5. http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
    6. http://www.hjp.at/
    7. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/06/rosler.html


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| OSDC.tw 2008 calls for paper                                       |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday October 27, @12:31 (yapc)      |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/1611224              |
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[0]hcchien writes "Most open source developers often get lots of new
ideas. And they implement them all the time. The open source developers
share their code to others, and get more feedback from the end users and
other developers.

Internet is a good way to share their ideas and code. If you want to get
more feedback directly or share more experiences to others. And you want
to get more developers to hack together. It's a good time to submit your
paper and proposal to OSDC.tw 2008.

The subject of OSDC.tw 2008 would be the "Innovation and Implementation".
You can share with others your ideas and implementation. The deadline of
the CFP is 2008/2/15, and the conference schedule will be releaded after
the end of call for paper. The date of OSDC.tw 2008 would be the mid of
April 2008. We will announce the date after the venue is confirmed.

For submitting the papers, you should include subject, extract. And tell
us how long is your talk. It could be a tutorial (180 mins) or session
(60 mins), you can either submit a lightening talk.

Please attach the speaker introduction when you submit the paper. And
send it to [1][email protected]"

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/27/1611224

Links:
    0. mailto:[email protected]
    1. mailto:[email protected]


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| TPR interviews Jesse Vincent, Perl 6 Project Manager               |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Saturday October 27, @15:32 (User Journa|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/1913247              |
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Earlier this Fall, I [0]interviewed Jesse Vincent about his role as Perl
6 Project Manager, which he's held since 2005. You may know him lately as
the guy underwriting [1]Perl 6 Microgrants, or as the owner of [2]Best
Practical, the people who bring us [3]RT for CPAN. Now read about his
Perl 6 Project Manager duties.

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/27/1913247

Links:
    0. http://www.theperlreview.com/Interviews/jesse-vincent-200708.html
    1. http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1542235&tid=30
    2. http://bestpractical.com/rt
    3. http://rt.cpan.org/rt


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| New CPAN Distributions for October 27, 2007                        |
|   posted by pudge on Saturday October 27, @18:30 (Module Listings) |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/1530209              |
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  * [0]App-Smbxfer-0.01 -- A "modulino" (module/program hybrid) for file
    transfer between Samba shares and the local filesystem.
  * [1]Business-ISBN-2.03_01 -- work with International Standard Book
    Numbers
  * [2]Business-ISBN-Data-1.17 -- data pack for Business::ISBN
  * [3]Crypt-CCM-0.02 -- CCM Mode for symmetric key block ciphers
  * [4]Crypt-GCM-0.02 -- Galois/Counter Mode (GCM)
  * [5]Data-Integer-0.003 -- details of the native integer data type
  * [6]Data-Serializer-0.42 -- Modules that serialize data structures
  * [7]EV-0.01 -- perl interface to libevent,
    monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
  * [8]Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.12 -- FIDE Swiss Same-Rank Contestant
    Pairing
  * [9]Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.13 -- FIDE Swiss Same-Rank Contestant
    Pairing
  * [10]Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.14 -- FIDE Swiss Same-Rank Contestant
    Pairing
  * [11]HTML-Element-Tiny-0.001 -- lightweight DOM-like elements
  * [12]IncPatch-0.01 -- incrementally apply diffs
  * [13]IncPatch-0.02 -- incrementally apply diffs with patch, a la darcs
  * [14]KinoSearch-0.162 -- search engine library
  * [15]KinoSearch-0.20_05 -- Search engine library.
  * [16]Lingua-EN-Conjugate-0.305 -- Conjugation of English verbs
  * [17]Net-LDAP-Server-0.4 -- LDAP server side protocol handling
  * [18]Net-SCP-0.08 -- Perl extension for secure copy protocol
  * [19]Net-TiVo-0.09 -- Perl interface to TiVo.
  * [20]Pod-Multi-0.07 -- pod2man, pod2text, pod2html simultaneously
  * [21]Pod-Multi-0.08 -- pod2man, pod2text, pod2html simultaneously
  * [22]Pod-Multi-0.09 -- pod2man, pod2text, pod2html simultaneously
  * [23]Pod-ProjectDocs-0.34 -- generates CPAN like pod pages
  * [24]TRL-Microarray-0.063 -- A Perl module for creating and
    manipulating microarray objects
  * [25]Text-AutoLink-0.03000 -- Automatically Linkfy
  * [26]Tie-Filehandle-Preempt-Stdin-0.02 -- Preempt STDIN during
    testing.
  * [27]Tk-Enscript-1.09 -- a text-to-postscript converter using
    Tk::Canvas

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/27/1530209

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~kerisman/App-Smbxfer-0.01
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Business-ISBN-2.03_01
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Business-ISBN-Data-1.17
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~oyama/Crypt-CCM-0.02
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~oyama/Crypt-GCM-0.02
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~zefram/Data-Integer-0.003
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~neely/Data-Serializer-0.42
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/EV-0.01
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~drbean/Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.12
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~drbean/Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.13
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~drbean/Games-Tournament-Swiss-0.14
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~hdp/HTML-Element-Tiny-0.001
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/IncPatch-0.01
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/IncPatch-0.02
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~creamyg/KinoSearch-0.162
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~creamyg/KinoSearch-0.20_05
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~rwg/Lingua-EN-Conjugate-0.305
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~aar/Net-LDAP-Server-0.4
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~ivan/Net-SCP-0.08
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~boumenot/Net-TiVo-0.09
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/Pod-Multi-0.07
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/Pod-Multi-0.08
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/Pod-Multi-0.09
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~lyokato/Pod-ProjectDocs-0.34
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~cjones/TRL-Microarray-0.063
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~dmaki/Text-AutoLink-0.03000
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~jkeenan/Tie-Filehandle-Preempt-Stdin-0.02
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-Enscript-1.09



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