"Ooh look, it’s another Perl 6 summary. Doesn’t that man ever take a holiday?" "I think he took one last month." "Is it in Esperanto this week?" "I don’t think so." "Does Leon Brocard get a mention?" "It certainly…
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 6 for the current design information. As soon as she walked through my door I knew her type: she was an argument waiting…
Welcome back to an interim Perl 6 Summary, falling between two conference weeks — OSCON and YAPC::Europe. For reasons involving insanity, a EuroStar ticket going begging, and undeserved generosity, I shall be bringing my conference haul up to 3…
Welcome once again to the Perl 6 Summary, in a week of major developments and tantalizing hints. We start, as usual, with what’s happening in perl6-internals: Targeting Parrot from GCC Discussion in the thread entitled ‘WxWindows Support / Interfacing Libraries’…
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030706 Welcome to this week’s Perl 6 Summary, coming to you live from a gatecrashed Speakers’ lounge at OSCON/TPC, surrounded by all the cool people like Dan Sugalski, Lisa Wolfisch, Graham Barr, and…
Editor’s note: Perl 6 Essentials is the first book to offer a peek into the next major version of the Perl language. It covers the development of Perl 6 syntax as well as Parrot, the language-independent interpreter developed as…
Welcome to my first anniversary issue of the Perl 6 Summary. Hopefully there won’t be too many more anniversaries to celebrate before we have a real, running Perl 6, but there’s bound to be ongoing development after that. My…
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030629 Welcome to the third of my US tour Perl 6 summaries. Once again I’m pleased to report that the denizens of the Perl 6 mailing lists continue to make the life…
Welcome to the last Perl 6 Summary of my first year of summarizing. If I were a better writer (or if I weren’t listening with half an ear to Damian telling YAPC about Perl 6 in case anything’s changed),…
It’s another Monday, it’s another summary and I need to get this finished so I can starting getting the house in order before we head off to Boca Raton and points north and west on the long road to…
Another Monday, another Perl 6 Summary. Does this man never take a holiday? (Yes, but only to go to Perl conferences this year, how did that happen?) We start with the internals list as usual. More on timely destruction The…
Welcome back to another Perl 6 summary in which Piers comes back from watching a load of pretty girls dancing ‘round a huge Maypole in Wellow (it’s 60 feet high, the tallest permanent Maypole in England, there’s been on…
Welcome back to another Perl 6 summary, this week without any ‘comic’ introductions. So, without further ado we press straight on to the happenings in perl6-internals. Makefile issues Bruce Gray sent in a patch to tweak Parrot’s Makefile to…
PEPPERPOT 1: Ooh look! It’s another Perl 6 summary! PEPPERPOT 2: Well I never did! What’s in it this week? PP 1: Ooh, I don’t know. Shall we have a look? PP 2: Ooh yes. Following a convoluted animation sequence…
Welcome my friends, to the show that never ends. Yes, another week, another Perl 6 Summary, chock full of condensed goodness, Leo Tötsch admiration and a smattering information about the design and development of Perl 6 and its target…
Welcome back to (I hope) a normal length summary of Perl 6 shenanigans after last week’s bumper double length installment. (Thankfully traffic has been much lighter this week; I’m not sure I could cope with writing another epic.) Perl6-internals…
You know how it is, you go away for a lovely weekend folk festival in Wales, you have a really good, relaxed time, singing yourself hoarse and generally forgetting all about technology before coming home to email from the…
Another week passes, another summary gets written. How does he do it? We start, as per usual with the still very quiet perl6-internals list. hey sexy where you been? The internals list’s normally impeccable spam filters failed slightly this…
Editor’s note: this document is out of date and remains here for historic interest. See Synopsis 6 for the current design information. This document summarizes Apocalypse 6, which covers subroutines and the new type system. Subroutines and Other Code…
Welcome my friends to the show that never ends. Yes, it’s another of Piers Cawley’s risible attempts to summarize the week’s happenings in the Perl 6 development community. We start, as usual, with events in the perl6-internals world (not the…
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