Perl Weekly #647 - Happy birthday Perl! 🎂
Tags: perl, news, programming
Published: 2023-12-18 08:13:55

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Originally published at [Perl Weekly 647](https://perlweekly.com/archive/647.html)


Hi there!

Today is the 35th birthday of Perl.

If you don't have an advent calendar just go around the kitchen randomly opening doors and see if there is anything edible... Luckily you can pick from several calendars

The <a href="https://perladvent.org/2023/">Perl Advent calendar</a> continues and now there are the <a href="https://advent.perldancer.org/2023">The Twelve Days of Dancer</a> as well

Enjoy your week!

  --
  Your editor: Gabor Szabo.


## Announcements

  
### [Dancer2 1.1.0 Released](https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2023/12/dancer2-110-released.html)



  

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## Advent Calendar

  
### [Santa's Helpers' Helpers](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-11.html)



  
### [My Top 7 Perl New Features](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-12.html)



  
### [Santa's New Dispatcher](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-13.html)



  
### [Introduction to class feature](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-14.html)



  
### [Santa’s Workshop Secrets: The Magical Test2 Suite (Part 1)](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-15.html)



  
### [Santa’s Workshop Secrets: The Magical Test2 Suite (Part 2)](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-16.html)



  
### [Sequentially Consistent Santa](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-17.html)



  
### [Trimming audio files with Audio::Nama](https://perladvent.org/2023/2023-12-18.html)



  

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## Sponsors

  
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## Twelve Days of Dancer

  
### [It's the Twelve Days of Dancer, 2023 edition!](https://blogs.perl.org/users/jason_a_crome/2023/12/its-the-twelve-days-of-dancer-2023-edition.html)

The 2023 Dancer Advent Calendar, the Twelve Days of Dancer is up and running! We hope you'll enjoy this year's version - there's a lot of fun and practical gifts to be found there.

  
### [The Twelve Days of Dancer, 2023 Edition](https://advent.perldancer.org/2023/13)

State of the Dancer - Questions for the Community - Let's Dance!

  
### [A new plugin for host-specific routing](https://advent.perldancer.org/2023/14)



  
### [Dancer2::Plugin::Mason - What's old is new again!](https://advent.perldancer.org/2023/15)



  
### [Building a Sleek Blog in a Snap with Dancer2 and LiteBlog](https://advent.perldancer.org/2023/16)



  
### [Svelte as a Dancer](https://advent.perldancer.org/2023/17)



  
### [A new way to use DBIx::Class in your Dancer2 apps!](https://advent.perldancer.org/2023/18)



  

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## Perl Steering Council

  
### [This Week in PSC (128) | 2023-12-14](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/12/this-week-in-psc-128-2023-12-14.html)



  
### [This Week in PSC (127) | 2023-12-07](https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2023/12/this-week-in-psc-127.html)



  

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## The Weekly Challenge
<a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org">The Weekly Challenge</a> by <a href="http://www.manwar.org">Mohammad Anwar</a> will help you step out of your comfort-zone. You can even win prize money of $50 Amazon voucher by participating in the weekly challenge. We pick one winner at the end of the month from among all of the contributors during the month. The monthly prize is kindly sponsored by Peter Sergeant of <a href="https://perl.careers/">PerlCareers</a>.
  
### [The Weekly Challenge - 248](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-248)

Welcome to a new week with a couple of fun tasks "Shortest Distance" and "Submatrix Sum". If you are new to the weekly challenge then why not join us and have fun every week. For more information, please read the <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/faq">FAQ</a>.

  
### [RECAP - The Weekly Challenge - 247](https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/recap-challenge-247)

Enjoy a quick recap of last week's contributions by Team PWC dealing with the "Secret Santa" and "Most Frequent Letter Pair" tasks in Perl and Raku. You will find plenty of solutions to keep you busy.

  
### [The Santa Letters](https://raku-musings.com/santa-letters.html)

This week we get more than what is asked in the task. Kudos for the effort, keep it great work up.

  
### [Weighing and Counting Pairs](https://github.sommrey.de/blog/pwc/challenge-247)

Thoroughly discussed and presented the solution, plenty to keep you engaged. Thanks for sharing.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 247: Most Frequent Letter Pair](https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2023/12/perl-weekly-challenge-247-most-frequent-letter-pair.html)

Simple and compact solutions in Perl and Raku. It is well documented too, thank you for your contributions.

  
### [THE WEEKLY CHALLENGE - 247](https://egroup.kolouch.org/nextcloud/sites/lubos/2023-12-11_Weekly_challenge_247)

A very unique approach to get the job done in different languages presenting the internals. Coolest approach.

  
### [arrays everywhere!](https://fluca1978.github.io/2023/12/11/PerlWeeklyChallenge247.html)

Presenting the power of Raku's regular expression. Greatly discussed too.

  
### [Perl Weekly Challenge 247](https://wlmb.github.io/2023/12/11/PWC247/)

Perl command line solutions to both tasks, incredible. Well done and keep it up.

  
### [Writing Letter Pairs to Santa](https://packy.dardan.com/2023/12/13/perl-weekly-challenge/)

Cool demo of Perl's function signature in this week solution. Thanks for sharing the knowledge with us.

  
### [Santa’s letters](http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge/247)

Sort hash value in Perl is the core. Also some Perl magic in display. Keep it up great work.

  
### [Most Frequent Santa](https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2023/12/The_Weekly_Challenge_247__Most_Frequent_Santa.html)

Flow network problem solved with Ford-Fulkerson. Another jargon to keep us busy. Thanks for your support and contributions.

  
### [The one about frequency](https://dev.to/simongreennet/the-one-about-frequency-la6)

Nice to know more about Santa Secret. Not to be missed the solutions in Perl and Python.

  
### [PWC247](https://thiujiac.blogspot.com/2023/12/pwc-247.html)

Cool use of localised subroutine ref in action. You must checkout for more information.

  

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## Weekly collections

  
### [NICEPERL's lists](http://niceperl.blogspot.com/)

<a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2023/12/cdlxxiv-7-great-cpan-modules-released.html">Great CPAN modules released last week</a>;<br><a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2023/12/dlxxv-metacpan-weekly-report-imager.html">MetaCPAN weekly report</a>;<br><a href="https://niceperl.blogspot.com/2023/12/dci-stackoverflow-perl-report.html">StackOverflow Perl report</a>.

  

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## The corner of Gabor
A couple of entries sneaked in by Gabor.
  
### [The Turbofish ::<> in Rust](https://rust.code-maven.com/turbofish)

Rust has an interesting feature of context sensitivity and it has an 'operator' called Trubofish. Don't forget to subscribe to the <a href="https://rust.code-maven.com/subscribe">Rust Maven newsletter</a>!

  
### [Diverging Functions - functions that never return in Rust](https://rust.code-maven.com/diverging-functions)



  

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