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    Perl Buzz

    perlbuzz.com · Publication · on HN since 2007

    Perl Buzz is a news blog covering the Perl community, tools, releases, and the Perl 5 and Perl 6 debate.

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    What HN says

    HN links it for Perl tool announcements and opinion pieces on the language's community, frameworks, and Parrot, with no stated judgment of quality.

    Stats for nerds
    22HN people shared it
    22linked in comments
    383story points
    Nov 2011last shared
    2008people per year2011

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Ack 2.0 has been released
      1 person · 214 points · first shared 2013 · 44 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Slipping away from the Perl community
      1 person · 76 points · first shared 2011 · 43 comments on HN
    3. 3
      "Higher-Order Perl" available for free download
      1 person · 36 points · first shared 2008 · 4 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Finding a lost dog's owner with Perl and WWW::Mechanize
      3 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
    5. 5
      Perl 6 development does not detract from Perl 5
      1 person · 6 points · first shared 2009 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Parrot tickets now converted to GitHub
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2012 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Why roles in Perl are awesome
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2010 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Asciio lets you create ASCII charts graphically
      2 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Why do designers fail to adopt Perl?
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2008 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Mark Jason Dominus on giving fish
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2011 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • epi0BauquNov 2008

      Recent post on this I bookrmarked: http://perlbuzz.com/2008/11/the-evolution-of-perl-frameworks.html

      Personally, I also glue together CGI, DBI, etc., and I have no desire to use a framework. Why do you? Is something in particular cumbersome?

    • iamjustlookingApr 2011

      There's another post about this from a few months ago, I guess he's been feeling this way for quite a while.

      http://perlbuzz.com/2010/11/think-for-perls-sake.html

    • draegtunJul 2009

      I think they've only started looking at optimization and it may not be number 1 priority yet?

      http://perlbuzz.com/2008/11/parrot-10-will-be-out-in-march-2009.html

    • pasbesoinNov 2011

      For convenience:

      http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Asciio/lib/App/Asciio.pm

      http://perlbuzz.com/2008/04/asciio-lets-you-create-ascii-charts-graphically.html

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