Category: Perl 6

Re: Transcription of Larry’s talk

We started having one, and an interesting thing happened. We spent the first hour gabbing about all sorts of political and organizational issues of a fairly boring and mundane nature. Partway through, Jon Orwant comes in, and stands there for a few minutes listening, and then he very calmly walks over to the coffee service table in the corner, and there were about 20 of us in the room, and he picks up a coffee mug and throws it against the other wall and he keeps throwing coffee mugs against the other wall, and he says “we are fucked unless we can come up with something that will excite the community, because everyone’s getting bored and going off and doing other things”.

The cups that started Perl6. One way to get a group’s attention.

Re: Transcription of Larry’s talk

We started having one, and an interesting thing happened. We spent the first hour gabbing about all sorts of political and organizational issues of a fairly boring and mundane nature. Partway through, Jon Orwant comes in, and stands there for a few minutes listening, and then he very calmly walks over to the coffee service table in the corner, and there were about 20 of us in the room, and he picks up a coffee mug and throws it against the other wall and he keeps throwing coffee mugs against the other wall, and he says “we are fucked unless we can come up with something that will excite the community, because everyone’s getting bored and going off and doing other things”.

The cups that started Perl6. One way to get a group’s attention.

What’s up with Perl6?

What’s up with Perl6?

Guide to the Perl 6 Working Groups on www.perl.com.

Guide to the Perl 6 Working Groups on www.perl.com.

Perl 6 Requirements Document an attempt to cover what needs changing in core Perl.

Report on the Perl 6 Announcement

Last Monday, nobody knew that anything unusual was about to happen. On Tuesday, the Perl 6 project started. On Wednesday, Larry announced it at his “State of the Onion” address at the Perl conference.

Yes, it all really did happen that fast.

…according to Larry, “Jon Orwant … pointed out that it was going to be useless to invent a new constitution if everyone was just going to say, ‘Ho, hum.'” Jon suggested that Perl try to go in a new direction, and do something new and big; he used Napster as an example of a new, big idea.

The influence of Napster has influnced the Perl community as well as the music industry.

There will be a Perl 6.

Scripting language Perl 6 to make debut in August