Perl 6 hackathon at the Swiss Perl Workshop
The third instalment of the Swiss Perl Workshop will take place in the last week of August 2015. Part of the workshop will be a Perl 6 Hackathon, one of the...
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Cleaning the CPAN cage: January 2015
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Windows Git Installation
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