Originally published at Perl Weekly 726
Hi there,
Most of us have explored and seen the power of ChatGPT. Last week, Dave Cross shared very interesting tool written in Perl to create podcast for the Perl Weekly newsletter. We already have podcast for Week #723, Week #724 and Week #725. I am very impressed with the content and sound quality. Great job, Dave. You can checkout the code in the GitHub repository.
Another post, Slice of Perl by Dave Cross inspired me to write about Array vs List in Perl.
For all Dancer2 fan, we have a good news, very soon there would be Dancer2 2.0.0 release. I am very excited and looking forward to it.
Enjoy rest of the newsletter.
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The Day We Decompress
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TWC326
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Decompressed Day
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Perl Weekly Challenge: Week 326
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The Length of a Day
PDL offers elegant ways to handle list transformations via vectorized operations. The post illustrates a concise and advanced Perl style that values reuse and idiomatic tools.
Happy Birthday Ma’!
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Perl Weekly Challenge 326
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Modern Perl's Victory
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Got a date with compression!
Emphasizes the use of core Perl modules (Time::Piece) to avoid reinventing date logic. Mentions best practices such as handling context carefully in the decompression task.
Days to decompress
Clear demonstration of using CPAN modules to solve common problems. Concise, readable code snippets.
The Weekly Challenge #326
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Day of the Decompression
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Weekly Challenge 326
It emphasizes the importance of using built-in functions for tasks like calculating the day of the year to avoid errors and simplify code. The solutions in both Python and Perl demonstrate clear and efficient approaches to the challenges.
Raku Weekly Challenge : Week 326
The solutions demonstrate Raku's expressive syntax and powerful built-in methods, leading to clean and efficient code. The inclusion of input validation and user-friendly comments further enhances the quality of the solutions.
Perl Weekly Challenge #326
The solution efficiently handles the decompression task using Perl's list manipulation features. Solutions are concise and demonstrate effective use of Perl's modules and list handling capabilities.
The weekly challenge 326
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