Geizhals Preisvergleich Donates USD 10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation
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Today The Perl and Raku Foundation is thrilled to announce a donation of USD10,000 from Geizhals Preisvergleich. This gift helps tosecure the future of The Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund.Perl has been an integral part of our product price comparison platformfrom the start of the company 25 years ago. Supporting the Perl 5 CoreMaintenance Fund means supporting both present and future of asubstantial pillar of Modern Open Source Computing, for us and othercurrent or prospective users. – Michael Krll of Geizhals PreisvergleichGeizhals is not only providing core funding for the Perl ecosystem, but alsosupporting developers, actively contributing to European conferences, andemploying Perl coders. Their interest in the strategic maintenance anddevelopment of Perl and CPAN is of great value to us all, and theirinvestment is very much appreciated. – Stuart J Mackintosh, President of The Perl and Raku FoundationBut who exactly is Geizhals, and why does their support matter so much to thePerl community?Geizhals Preisvergleich began in July of 1997 as a hobby projectand yes,“Geizhals” literally translates to “skinflint” in English (they even operateskinflint.co.uk for UK users!). From those humblebeginnings, they’ve leveraged the power of Perl to scale up to serving 4.3million monthly users. With Perl being a keypart of their infrastructure, they have generously decided to support the Perl5 Core Maintenance Fund.While many of us know about the Core Maintenance Fund, the specific problems itaddresses often remain invisible to users. I reached out to the maintainerswhose work is supported by this fund. This is what core maintainer Tony Cookhad to say:My work tends to be little things, I review other people’s work which I thinkimproves quality and velocity, and fix more minor issues, some examples wouldbe:- a fix to signal handling where perl could crash where an external librarycreated threads (#22487)
- fix a segmentation fault in smartmatch against a sub if the sub exited via aloop exit op (such as last)(#16608)
- fixed a bug where a regexp warning could leak memory.
- prevent a confusing undefined warning message when accessing a subparameter that was placeholder for a hash element indexed by anundef key (#22423)
What Tony has highlighted are the kinds of bug fixes which collectively help toensure that Perl remains stable, secure and reliable for the many organisationsand individuals who depend on it.With organizations like Geizhals Preisvergleich funding the work which Tony andothers put into maintaining the Perl 5 core, we can work together to ensure thatthe Perl core continues to receive the maintenance which it deserves, for manyyears to come. Whether you’re a startup using Perl for rapid prototyping or anenterprise running mission-critical systems, your support helps ensure Perlremains reliable for everyone. Please join us on this journey.For more information on how to become a sponsor, please contact:olaf@perlfoundation.org
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Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10, Part 2
 Perl 5 has come a long way in the past few years. The newest version, Perl 5.10, added several new features to make your programs shorter, easier to maintain, easier to write, and more powerful. Here's how to start using files and strings in modern Perl.
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A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10
Perl 5 has come a long way in the past few years. The newest version, Perl 5.10, added several new features to make your programs shorter, easier to maintain, easier to write, and more powerful. Here's how to start using modern Perl productively.
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Using Amazon S3 from Perl
 Amazon's Simple Storage Service provides a simple, flexible, and inexpensive way to manage online data storage. Amazon's S3 modules for Perl make storing and retrieving data in your own programs almost trivial, leaving Amazon to worry about hosting, scaling, and backups. Abel Lin shows how to store, retrieve, and store data with Amazon S3.
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