"According to this, the ISO are now calling a "standard" the Microsoft Office format (which is cynically called "Office Open XML"). [...] What is interesting is that TeX, LaTeX, OGG/Vorbis, OGG/Theora, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, OCaml, are not standardized by any organization.
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Post FOSDEM
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"...The next talk was about Perl 6. Patrick Michaud was a good speaker, and he could convey his enthousiasm about the (many) novelties of Perl 6 as opposed to 5. He also quickly described what they used for their implementation of Perl 6, Rakudo Perl : the Parrot virtual machine. This seemingly allows you to put together your dynamic language in about 4 hours. Might pick up Perl again sometime..." -- via perlbuzz: http://perlbuzz.com/2008/02/patrick-michaud-spreads-the-word-at-fosdem.html
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The Perl Foundation: Call for Grant Proposals
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"The Perl Foundation is looking at giving some grants ranging from $500 to $3000 in February 2008..."
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Perl birthday parties across North America
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"...At the regular monthly SPUG meeting on December 18th, 2007, we had a little celebration for Perl's 20th birthday which just happened to be on the same day..."
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Reminiscence Wanted
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"As you may know, Perl is now 20 years old. In lieu of buying her a beer and waiting around for a year, I'm looking for interesting stories and memories to collect and post on a Perl-related website with a very nice and short domain name in the next couple of days...."
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Perl Experts - Why They Are Passionate About Perl
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"Popularity of a language at the end of the day, comes down to the passion of the user community. A passionate and vibrant community helps language adoption and help increase its popularity. We wanted to talk to a select few experts, people who are experts in the language and ask their opinion. This is Part 1..."
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Perl – An Awesome Programming Language
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"I have just finished learning the programming language Perl, and let me tell you, this is one amazing language. It can do almost anything! It's very easy to learn if you have a knowledge of C or C++. If you don't, I suggest learning Python first..."
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Welcome to Mechanix
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"Mechanix is the new tech section of Perlbuzz that will deal with tech tips, code tricks and other nitty-gritty bits of Perl and related topics..."
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Beginners guide to database administration tools
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Welcome to an introduction for the beginner to the basic manipulation of the MySQL database with free software. The purpose of this article is to show how universally straightforward it is to get started with installing and applying a high-grade enterprise ready database like MySQL, and to learn how to manipulate it via numerous free software approaches.
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