Perl Buzz

perlbuzz.com · Group blog · on HN since 2007

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

What HN saysHN links it for Perl tool announcements and opinion pieces on the language's community, frameworks, and Parrot, with no stated judgment of quality.
22HN people shared it
4linked it in comments
22stories submitted
383story points
14 years agolast shared
2007people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Finding a lost dog's owner with Perl and WWW::Mechanize
    3 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
  2. 2
    Asciio lets you create ASCII charts graphically
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Ack 2.0 has been released
    1 people · 214 points · first shared 2013 · 44 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Slipping away from the Perl community
    1 people · 76 points · first shared 2011 · 43 comments on HN
  5. 5
    "Higher-Order Perl" available for free download
    1 people · 36 points · first shared 2008 · 4 comments on HN
  6. 6
    Perl 6 development does not detract from Perl 5
    1 people · 6 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
  7. 7
    Why roles in Perl are awesome
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Parrot tickets now converted to GitHub
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
  9. 9
    Mark Jason Dominus on giving fish
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
  10. 10
    Why do designers fail to adopt Perl?
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    Good Perl code is the best form of evangelism
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
  12. 12
    What to say to "Perl 6 isn't Perl any more"
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
  13. 13
    Nurturing new open source contributors
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
  14. 14
    What's the state of Perl web frameworks?
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
  15. 15
    Where is Perl 6? The question that won't die
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN

What HN people wrote when they linked it

iamjustlooking · 2011-04-24
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
draegtun · 2009-07-21
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
epi0Bauqu · 2008-11-23
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?

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