Speaking of Ayn Rand, there’s another event the following weekend on Saturday, March 6. Titled “How to ‘Put a Dent in the Universe,’ ” it looks like a good (and free!) one-day conference for everyone from beginners to advanced students. Be sure to register on the web site and tune in!
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Ayn Rand Objectivism Austin meetup this Sunday
NEW group this Sunday on Meetup! Are you Curious about Ayn Rand? Join this welcoming group to discuss how Ayn Rand’s ideas relate to your life. Our first online conversation will focus on questions raised by the COVID crisis and the method for deciding how to handle similar issues in the future. You can read this very brief summary in advance. Please know this is not a debate but an open discussion for those who are genuinely curious to learn more about applying the principles of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism.
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Dan Book’s Perl 7: A Modest Proposal
This proposal from Dan Book seems reasonable to me. A version 7 feature bundle that renders signatures non-experimental; removes the indirect, multidimensional, and bareword filehandle features; enables warnings and utf8 by default? Sure. And more importantly, incrementing the major version every time a new feature is stable.
Unfortunately we’re still on Perl 5.16.3 at work, and it would be a big push to make sure our codebase is compatible with a newer version, much less adopt new features. But I’m willing to bet a reasonable release of version 7 might be just the push we need.
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De-experimentalizing Perl subroutine signatures
On the heels of my blog article and upcoming presentation comes Paul Evans’ call to de-experimentalize (is that a word?) subroutine signatures in Perl core. It’s been stable for over four years now, and the “experimental” tag has been holding back developers big and small, so I fully support this effort. Maybe it can make it into Perl 5.34? Here’s hoping.
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Paul Evans’ Writing a Core Perl Feature
This upcoming blog series by Perl core contributor Paul Evans promises to be very interesting, as it details what goes into developing and committing a new feature into Perl itself. Evans recently added the isa operator to Perl 5.32, and will be describing how to add a similar (but fictional) feature across 10 or more articles. I’m looking forward to following along.