Tag: Perl

Episode 432: brian d foy on Perl 7

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Episode 432: brian d foy on Perl 7

brian d foy, author of Mastering Perl and Learning Perl 6, and the co-author of Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl, Effective Perl Programming, and others discusses Perl 7, why it is needed and what it enables for the future. Host Gavin Henry spoke with Foy about Perl’s history, what Perl is, Perl 5, Perl […]

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Episode 431: Ken Youens-Clark on Learning Python

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Episode 431: Ken Youens-Clark on Learning Python

Ken Youens-Clark, author of Tiny Python Projects discusses Python. Felienne spoke with Youens-Clark about new features in Python, including optional typing and immutable datatypes. They also discussed  Youens-Clark’s upcoming book on how to teach Python and testing. Should testing be taught to new programmers from the start, and how to do that? Contexts for programming […]

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