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Do you know every module that ships with Perl? I don't, to be 
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    http://www.perl.com/a/2003/05/29/treasures.html

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with coroutines; a new PMC layout; or dancing around maypoles...

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*** Featured Articles ***

Hidden Treasures of the Perl Core
The Perl Core comes with a lot of little modules to help you get 
your job done. Many of these modules are not well known. Even 
some of the well known modules have some nice features that are 
often overlooked. In this article, we'll dive into many of these 
hidden treasures of the Perl Core.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/29/treasures.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-25
Piers takes a break from traditional English festivities to report 
on the Perl 6 world: this week, more about timely destruction, the 
Perl 6 Essentials book, a new layout for PMCs, and a lengthy 
discussion of coroutines.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/p6pdigest/20030525.html

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Testing mod_perl 2.0
Geoffrey Young examines another area of programming in mod_perl 2.0, 
testing your mod_perl scripts.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/22/testing.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-18
Garbage collection versus timely destruction, colors in BASIC, 
how contexts interact, and whether or not we need a special sigil 
for objects - it's all talk in the Perl 6 world this week.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/p6pdigest/20030518.html

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CGI::Kwiki
Brian Ingerson's latest Perl module is a new modular implementation 
of the wiki, a world-editable web site.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/14/kwiki.html

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This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-11
Perl 6 this week brings us news of managed and unmanaged buffers 
from Parrot's NCI, stack-walking garbage collection, co-routines, 
and some really horrible heredoc syntax wrangling.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/p6pdigest/20030511.html

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2003 Perl Conferences
There are a plethora of Perl conferences on this year; which of 
them should you go to? I survey the conference scene and make a 
few recommendations about talks you might want to try and get to see.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/05/06/conferences.html

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