Stories for 2008-02-04

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In this issue:
    * The Cult of Bootstrapping
    * New CPAN Distributions for February  3, 2008

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| The Cult of Bootstrapping                                          |
|   posted by brian_d_foy on Sunday February 03, @12:24 (User Journal|
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/175238               |
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  I understand why you want to use Perl to write Perl. But that's not
  the only path to "Christmas", and frankly, perhaps not even the most
  promising one (initially). Also, a non-bootstrapped implementation
  could be useful in either case, so why is there no alternative
  project to write a straight-forward interpreter in plain ANSI C?
  That's what Lua did; making especially sure that compiling Lua is as
  simple as "gcc *.c". And look at how popular it is, despite being
  such a poor language.

— monomorph, [0][Perl 6] Thoughts

One of the goals of Perl 6 is to create a family of languages through
lexical grammar modifications. That is, programmers should be able to
create their own local (and encapsulated) Perl 6 dialects by modifying
the Perl 6 grammar by writing Perl 6 code.

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    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/175238

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/03/175238

Links:
    0. http://jottit.com/r3stt/


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| New CPAN Distributions for February  3, 2008                       |
|   posted by pudge on Sunday February 03, @18:30 (Module Listings)  |
|   http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/03/1530214              |
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  * [0]Acme-EyeDrops-1.52 -- Visual Programming in Perl
  * [1]App-Env-0.06 -- manage application specific environments
  * [2]Archive-Rar-1.94 -- Interface with the 'rar' command
  * [3]Bundle-Theory-1.00 -- A bundle to install all Theory's favorite
    modules
  * [4]Convert-Temperature-0.03 -- Convert Temperatures
  * [5]Fey-Core-0.01
  * [6]Fey-Loader-0.01 -- Load your schema defintion from a DBMS
  * [7]File-HomeDir-0.69 -- Find your home and other directories, on any
    platform
  * [8]Fuzz-0.06.1 -- network services fuzzing interface.
  * [9]GSSAPI-0.25 -- Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2
    library
  * [10]Geo-Coordinates-Converter-iArea-0.06 -- get center point from
    iArea
  * [11]Geo-Coordinates-Converter-iArea-0.07 -- get center point from
    iArea
  * [12]Graph-Maker -- Create many types of graphs
  * [13]HTTP-MobileAgent-Plugin-Charset-0.03 -- Encode::JP::Mobile
    friendly
  * [14]IPC-MorseSignals-0.09 -- Communicate between processes with Morse
    signals.
  * [15]Language-Befunge-Vector-XS-1.0.0 -- Language::Befunge::Vector
    rewritten for speed
  * [16]Log-Log4perl-Layout-PatternLayout-Elapsed-0.01 -- Logs the time
    elapsed between the last log event
  * [17]Math-Factor-XS-0.35 -- Factorise numbers and calculate matching
    multiplications
  * [18]MooseX-Singleton-0.05 -- turn your Moose class into a singleton
  * [19]Net-Citadel-0.02 -- Citadel.org protocol coverage
  * [20]Net-DownloadMirror-0.06 -- Perl extension for mirroring a remote
    location via FTP to the local directory
  * [21]Net-MirrorDir-0.09 -- Perl extension for compare
    local-directories and remote-directories with each other
  * [22]Net-SocialGraph-1.0 -- interact with Google's Social Graph API
  * [23]Net-SocialGraph-1.1 -- interact with Google's Social Graph API
  * [24]Net-UploadMirror-0.09 -- Perl extension for mirroring a local
    directory via FTP to the remote location
  * [25]POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-PAUSE-RecentUploads-0.01 -- PoCo::IRC
    plugin for reporting recent uploads to "/pause.perl.org" in http::
  * [26]POE-Component-WWW-PAUSE-RecentUploads-Tail-0.01 -- tail recent
    uploads to PAUSE.
  * [27]POE-Component-WWW-PAUSE-RecentUploads-Tail-0.03 -- tail recent
    uploads to PAUSE.
  * [28]Perl6-Doc-0.35 -- all useful Perl 6 Docs in your command line
  * [29]SNMP-Class-0.08 -- A convenience class around the NetSNMP perl
    modules.
  * [30]String-CaseProfile-0.05 -- Get/Set the letter case profile of a
    string
  * [31]Template-Like-0.09 -- Lightweight Template Engine.
  * [32]Template-Like-0.10 -- Lightweight Template Engine.
  * [33]Test-Dir-1.005 -- test directory attributes
  * [34]Tk-Pod-0.9938 -- Pod browser toplevel widget
  * [35]WordPress-XMLRPC-1.02
  * [36]XML-Mini-1.3.4 -- Perl implementation of the XML::Mini XML
    create/parse interface.
  * [37]XML-Mini-1.35 -- Perl implementation of the XML::Mini XML
    create/parse interface.
  * [38]XML-Mini-1.36 -- Perl implementation of the XML::Mini XML
    create/parse interface.
  * [39]mobirc-0.04 -- modern IRC to HTTP gateway

Discuss this story at:
    http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=08/02/03/1530214

Links:
    0. http://search.cpan.org/~asavige/Acme-EyeDrops-1.52
    1. http://search.cpan.org/~djerius/App-Env-0.06
    2. http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Archive-Rar-1.94
    3. http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/Bundle-Theory-1.00
    4. http://search.cpan.org/~mopy/Convert-Temperature-0.03
    5. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Fey-Core-0.01
    6. http://search.cpan.org/~drolsky/Fey-Loader-0.01
    7. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/File-HomeDir-0.69
    8. http://search.cpan.org/~ksuri/Fuzz-0.06.1
    9. http://search.cpan.org/~agrolms/GSSAPI-0.25
   10. http://search.cpan.org/~tokuhirom/Geo-Coordinates-Converter-iArea-0.06
   11. http://search.cpan.org/~tokuhirom/Geo-Coordinates-Converter-iArea-0.07
   12. http://search.cpan.org/~batz/Graph-Maker
   13. http://search.cpan.org/~tokuhirom/HTTP-MobileAgent-Plugin-Charset-0.03
   14. http://search.cpan.org/~vpit/IPC-MorseSignals-0.09
   15. http://search.cpan.org/~jquelin/Language-Befunge-Vector-XS-1.0.0
   16. http://search.cpan.org/~potyl/Log-Log4perl-Layout-PatternLayout-Elapsed-0.01
   17. http://search.cpan.org/~schubiger/Math-Factor-XS-0.35
   18. http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/MooseX-Singleton-0.05
   19. http://search.cpan.org/~drrho/Net-Citadel-0.02
   20. http://search.cpan.org/~knorr/Net-DownloadMirror-0.06
   21. http://search.cpan.org/~knorr/Net-MirrorDir-0.09
   22. http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-SocialGraph-1.0
   23. http://search.cpan.org/~simonw/Net-SocialGraph-1.1
   24. http://search.cpan.org/~knorr/Net-UploadMirror-0.09
   25. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-IRC-Plugin-PAUSE-RecentUploads-0.01
   26. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-WWW-PAUSE-RecentUploads-Tail-0.01
   27. http://search.cpan.org/~zoffix/POE-Component-WWW-PAUSE-RecentUploads-Tail-0.03
   28. http://search.cpan.org/~lichtkind/Perl6-Doc-0.35
   29. http://search.cpan.org/~aduitsis/SNMP-Class-0.08
   30. http://search.cpan.org/~enell/String-CaseProfile-0.05
   31. http://search.cpan.org/~askadna/Template-Like-0.09
   32. http://search.cpan.org/~askadna/Template-Like-0.10
   33. http://search.cpan.org/~mthurn/Test-Dir-1.005
   34. http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-Pod-0.9938
   35. http://search.cpan.org/~leocharre/WordPress-XMLRPC-1.02
   36. http://search.cpan.org/~pdeegan/XML-Mini-1.3.4
   37. http://search.cpan.org/~pdeegan/XML-Mini-1.35
   38. http://search.cpan.org/~pdeegan/XML-Mini-1.36
   39. http://search.cpan.org/~tokuhirom/mobirc-0.04



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