Perl vs PHP, Topicalizers, and Naming

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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.

Perl news has been rather thin on the ground this week, although 
there is the weekly perl5-porters summary:
 
    http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/2052205

It seems Yahoo has chosen to use PHP for its administration 
interface, with various reasons cited for not using Perl; it's 
almost a shame that this comes so late after most of us dumped 
Yahoo for Google...

    http://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/talks/yahoo-phpcon2002.htm
    http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/10/29/2052239.shtml?tid=169

Meanwhile, IBM has produced a comparison of Perl and Python with 
particular focus on Web services and the DB2 database:

    http://www7b.software.ibm.com/dmdd/library/techarticle/0210hilf/0210hilf.pdf

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

We've heard a lot from the various Perl 6 discussions and articles 
about the concept of a "topic" and "topicalizers." In this week's 
feature article by Perl 6 designer Allison Randal, she explores how 
topicalizers are actually an everyday phenomenon, and present 
in Perl 5 as well...

    http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/topic.html

And here's a very brief article from me on the importance of 
naming on software projects and modules:

    http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/2225

Simon Cozens
<[email protected]>

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*** Featured Articles ***

On Topic
Allison Randal explains the seemingly strange concept of "topic" 
in Perl 6--and finds that it's alive and well in Perl 5 too...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/topic.html

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The Phrasebook Design Pattern and Class::Phrasebook
Have you ever written code that uses two languages in the same 
program? Whether they be human languages or computer languages, 
the phrasebook design pattern helps you separate them for more 
maintainable code.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/22/phrasebook.html

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Radiator
Are you fed up with those who think that commercial applications 
need to be written in an "enterprise" language like Java or C++? 
So are we, so we spoke to Mike McCauley at Open System Consultants.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/15/radiator.html

***

This week on Perl 6 (10/7-14, 2002)
A new pumpking, sprintf, insight from Larry, and more...

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/p6pdigest/20021016.html

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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

***

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

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

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