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Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, 
bringing you the latest goings-on from the world of Perl and our 
own site.

* Perl at large.

Two notes about newsletters this week: The Perl Foundation's 
newsletter is out and available at the URL below, and "The Perl 
Journal" is very close to reaching a reasonable number of subscribers 
and going ahead.  Please consider supporting "The Perl Journal," a 
veritable Perl institution; for the measly sum of one dollar a 
month, you get book reviews, articles, and columns you won't find 
anywhere else.

    http://perlfoundation.org/index.cgi?page=newsletter
    http://www.tpj.com/

And speaking of "The Perl Journal," the "Best of The Perl Journal" is 
soon coming out from O'Reilly; the first volume in this three-
volume collection is about the use of Perl in computer science 
applications and applying computer science theories to real-world 
Perl applications:

    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tpj1/

It's All Change in the Parrot project, with Jeff Goff handing over 
the pumpking to Steve Fink. Steve has done fantastic work with the 
regex engine, and we hope he'll do fantastic work with the rest of 
Parrot too.  Meanwhile, thanks to Jeff for his great work and hope 
he enjoys his well-deserved rest!

    http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg13010.html

And finally, Jeff's not the only one taking a well-deserved rest: 
Damian Conway signs off until next year:

    http://yetanother.org/damian/diary_latest.html

* What's new on www.perl.com?

Leon Brocard steps neatly into Piers' shoes this week to bring us 
the Perl 6 summary; this week he offers tales of the long-awaited "getting 
started guide," interface-based programming, a new memory 
allocator, and much more...

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/p6pdigest/20021006.html

And I take a look at ActiveState's brand new version of its
Komodo IDE for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, and XSLT. I've never 
been a big fan of GUI tools for development, but the 2.0 release of 
Komodo very, very nearly has me converted:

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/komodo.html

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>

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*** Featured Articles ***

A Review of Komodo
Simon Cozens takes a look at ActiveState's latest Komodo release, 
Komodo 2.0. Will this version of the Perl IDE finally convince the 
hardened emacs and vi users to switch over?

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/komodo.html

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This week on Perl 6 (9/30 - 10/6, 2002)
News on the getting started guide, interfaces, memory allocation, and more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/p6pdigest/20021006.html

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How Hashes Really Work
We're all used to using hashes and expect them to just work. But 
what actually is a hash, when it comes down to it, and how do they 
work? Abhijit explains!

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/01/hashes.html

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This week on Perl 6 (9/23 - 9/29, 2002)
An IMCC update, the Scheme interpreter, lists and list references 
again, and a load besides...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020929.html

***

An AxKit Image Gallery
Continuing our look at AxKit, Barrie demonstrates the use of 
AxKit on non-XML data: images and operating system calls.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/24/axkit.html

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This week on Perl 6 (9/16 - 9/22, 2002)
The neverending keys thread, lists versus list references, and a 
load besides...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/p6pdigest/20020922.html

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