[rochester-pm-list] www.perl.com: Report on the Perl 6 Announcement (fwd)

Brian Mathis bmathis at directedge.com
Thu Aug 3 10:19:39 CDT 2000



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Hello, perl.com subscribers.

Although there isn't too much new on the site this week, 
O'Reilly Network has an audio roundtable discussion with 
Mark Dominus (that's me) and brian d foy (founder of the Perl 
Mongers and Official Spokesperson for Perl 6) talking about 
the Perl 6 announcement:

http://oreilly.linux.com/linux/rt/07282000/

If you're a luddite like me and you don't own a sound card, a
transcript is available at:
       
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/rt/07282000/transcript.html


For more Perl 6 News, keep reading.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS

I got so interested in talking about Perl 6 in last week's 
newsletter that I didn't get to mention any of the other big news 
that's going on.  A lot of other things happened at the Perl 
conference.

The second annual White Camel awards were given out. The White 
Camels are awarded for nontechnical contributions to Perl.  The 
winners were Elaine Ashton (for contributions to user groups), 
Chris Nandor (for contributions to advocacy) and Nat Torkington 
(for contributions to the Perl community).  See
 
http://www.perl.org/advocacy/white_camels.shtml

for details about the winners and the generous sponsors of the 
awards.

Also at the conference, Damian Conway ran the second annual 
Perl Haiku contest.  For winners and winning entries, see
        
http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/haiku2000.html 

More conference news: The third edition of _Programming Perl_ 
was unveiled.  The second edition, you may recall, was several 
years old and only covered Perl 5.003.  It also had many important 
omissions.  The new Third Edition is fully up-to-date (it even 
includes some things that are in Perl 5.6 that were not yet 
complete when the book was being written) and is 70% larger.  
Yes, really!  The second edition was 645 pages long; the third 
edition is 1104 pages.  The book weighs about the same; they used 
much thinner paper.  I am astounded. 

Not at the conference: Registration opened for YAPC::Europe, a small,
cheap, community-organized Perl conference to be held in London from
21--24 September of this year.  For details:

http://www.yapc.org/Europe/

Issue 18 of the Perl Journal was shipped, with advance copies
available at the conference.  (I swiped mine from the vendor's room
while nobody was looking.)  The new issue has articles by Simon Cozens
about his new Mail::Audit module and how he threw away all the
utilities on his Linux system and replaced them with Perl versions.
TPJ has also announced their fifth annual obfuscated Perl contest.  
If you don't subscribe, you can read the rules at

http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/obfusc-5.html

The submission deadline is August 15, so get your submissions ready in
a hurry. 

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PERL 6 NEWS

The noisy noisy Perl 6 bootstrap mailing list seems to be winding 
up its business.  The Bootstrap list was formed in order to organize
the other Perl 6 discussion lists, such as the list that would talk 
about Perl 6 internals, and it was noisy noisy because people couldn't 
wait and kept talking about Perl 6 internals on the bootstrap list.  
But the outcome seems good: Several new mailing lists for discussing 
Perl 6 internals, language design, and bug tracking and QA.  Also, 
there's a new perl6-announce mailing list which will carry 
announcements of new lists, new working groups, and new position 
papers.

Dan Sugalski was named to be head of the Internals working group.
Nobody has been chosen to chair the Language group yet.  Skud
Robert may take over the position of project manager.

More details are at:

http://www.perl.org/perl6/

To subscribe to the announcements list, send a note to:

perl6-announce-subscribe at perl.org

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COMING UP

A TPC conference report (even if I have to write it myself!)  Also 
the long-promised interview with Ilya Zakharevich.  Ilya was a 
prominent Perl Porter for many years, contributing so much to so 
many places that it's hard to list all of it.  He was responsible 
for Perl's operator overloading feature, and was the person most 
responsible for the shape of Perl's regex engine, contributing a 
huge number of new features and speed optimizations.  He developed 
the excellent cperl.el mode for Emacs, was responsible for the port 
to OS/2, and wrote the Devel::Peek, Math::Pari, Term::Readline, and 
FreezeThaw modules, among others.  He recently quit Perl development, 
but I caught a surprise glimpse of him at the conference on Tuesday 
(when the Perl 6 meeting was going on) so perhaps there's hope he'll 
return.
        
Thank you all.  I will be in touch again next week.
 
Mark Dominus 
Managing Editor


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