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<big><big><big><font color="#990000">Happy new year Perth Perl
Mongers!</font></big></big></big><br>
<br>
It's nearly that time again, the <i>1st Wednesday of the month</i>
is this coming Wednesday, 4th of January 2011. We're catching up at
the <b>Belgian Beer Café</b> on Murray Street
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.belgianbeer.com.au/">http://www.belgianbeer.com.au/</a>) in the city from 6:30pm. Call my
mobile if you're looking for me/us (0422166708).<br>
<br>
This month I'm going to try and bring my laptop along, with the
Parrot 2.11 release and Raduko Start release that implements much of
Perl 6, and see if we can do something interesting. From the web
site:<br>
<blockquote><font color="#333399"><i>Rakudo Star is aimed at "early
adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it
is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some advanced
pieces of the Perl 6 language specification that aren't
implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form is also
proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications and
exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are
intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers,
grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user
feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation
of it.</i></font><br>
</blockquote>
I am still looking for someone to speak at our gatherings on a Perl<i>-ish</i>
type topic. If you have something fun that you have worked on and
would like to present or discuss, please let me know. Hence I'll
take the lead this month and fiddle with Perl6. I've not looked at
it before, and there may well be some of you who are better placed
than I to do this... let me know if that's you!<br>
<br>
I'm also after a few suggestions for the <b>next few venues</b>.
Ideally its got to be near to some transport, or have good parking,
or both; hopefully with food, not too noisy that we can't talk,
interesting and 'reasonably' central. I'm thinking of possibly <span><span><span
dir="ltr">The Lucky Shag Waterfront Bar</span></span><span
style="display: none;"><span></span></span></span><span
style="display: none;">Address:</span><span class="nw"><img
src="cid:part1.00020805.08010409@rcpt.to" style="display: none;"
class="tsch-whlchr" alt="Station is accessible" title="Station
is accessible" height="14" width="14"><img
src="cid:part1.05010903.03000901@rcpt.to" class="noprint
unstarred" id="iwstar"></span><span>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.luckyshagbar.com.au/">http://www.luckyshagbar.com.au/</a>), potentially Paddy Hannan's at
Burswood, .... give us your suggestions. I'd like to have the <b>next
3 meetings </b>planned if possible.<br>
<br>
Happy new year,<br>
<br>
James<br>
0422 166 708.<br>
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