APM: January Meeting - tomorrow!

[Thomas L. Shinnick]

At 03:55 PM 1/20/2009, Ian Remmler wrote:
>Sorry for the very short notice.  I reserved the party room at
>Mangia on Gracy Farm for 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM tomorrow night,
>Wednesday 1/21.
>
>http://www.mangiapizza.com/33/Gracy-Farms.htm
>
>I'll demo the latest rakudo and show some actual functional code
>some people have written in Perl 6.  It shouldn't take too long,
>so if anyone has any interesting Perl bits they would like to
>share, feel free to bring a laptop, or just stand up and blab
>for a few minutes.

Did you install rakudo on Windows or Linux?  I was able to get 'most' 
of rakudo built, but using the Strawberry Perl 5.10 release to allow 
compiles as it has its own complete build environment.  But... a few 
rakudo build problems and much poking of makefiles.  Classic was that 
since cygwin *nix tools were (originally) in the path, the build 
thought it could use Bash but then also '\' path separators because 
it was Windows.

Actually I've been peering under the lid of the rakudo compiling 
setup, and at one group's poke at implementing Javascript.  So far my 
only exposure to real Perl 6 is looking at the regex stuff in the parser's.

I'll be there.  Perl 6 for me so far is sorta like how I recognize 
spoken Korean - it sounds _just_ like Japanese but it's not Japanese 
- I know it solely by what it is not?

><pathetic_plea>
>Does anyone happen to have a projector that we could borrow for
>the evening?  If not, everyone will just have to look at my
>laptop screen with a really big xterm font.
></pathetic_plea>
>
>--
>     - Ian.


-- 
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     Lewis Mumford  (1895-1990)
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