Perl,Ingres,programming

Will 'the Chill' Braswell, President of the Austin Perl Mongers but mostly know for his work on the RPerl fork, spearheads the "Perl Master Plan" initiative which aims to reinstate Perl as a prime force in the programming world. As an idea and roadmap it seems good. Its execution is not.  The plan proposes a number of targets that the effort should be directed to - Education, Jobs and Performance amongst others. Introducing the focus on Apps the proposal reads:
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Are character encodings and environment incompatibilities messing with the your data? Why it happens and what to do about it.  A SOAP message is delivered to an Apache server which runs a SOAP::Lite powered Perl CGI script that acts as the SOAP server. The script interacts with Ingres, reading and inserting data. Both Perl and Ingres are fined tuned to speak iso8859/7 Greek. The issue was that the same CGI script produced different results when run under different servers. In the first case the Greek characters sent by the client and consumed by the server are getting into the database as they should do, while in the second case the very same data under the same workflow ends up as "garbage".That is, for example, Greek character capital A, or alpha, ends up as sequence "Γ\201".
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Tired of your word processor red squiggling perfectly acceptable technical terms and acronyms? The cyber.dic spellcheck dictionary puts an end to that! 

Default spellcheck dictionaries do not include the niche technical terms that most security professionals need to use in their emails, reports, and presentations. Cyber.dic solves that problem by augmenting your word processor’s dictionary with more than 1,700 terms that are likely to be treated with a red underline in your documents.

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Perl 6 is going to be renamed to Raku. What will that change herald? 

Despite Perl 6 starting out as a community rewrite, Larry Wall still possessed the rights to the name. As such despite the name change calls from prominent and core members of the project's development community, which were funneled into pull requests on its GitHub repository, Larry's approval was still required. He finally gave in in replying to pull request Path to raku  in Biblical fashion: full article on i-programmer

Python is on the rise, predicted soon to overtake Java as the most popular programming language on the Tiobe index. Should you catch up? Yes you should. From general programming, to APIs and web backends to Data Science,  Python shows its strength and versatility. Even Microsoft is looking beyond its .NET wunderkids and shows love with supporting Python deep within its popular IDE's of Visual Studio and VS Code and even in Windows 10. The love does not stop there though.It offers educational material in the shape of 44-part YouTube video based course aptly named "Python for Beginners".
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Encoding, encrypting and converting data formats, open source and collected under one roof inside the browser and all thanks to GCHQ - yes, a government intelligence agency. Are all government agencies falling in love with GHitHub and open sourcing their tools? Of course the recent and hottest headlines belong to NSA's release of its reverse engineering tool Ghidra,but this latest offering from the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) should not go unnoticed or be underestimated. full article on i-programmer