On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM, John Macdonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@perlwolf.com">john@perlwolf.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I think we can get an idea of the subject matter that would have been in<br>
Richard's "surprise" presentation tonight (before he got ill) by looking<br>
at the newest article on <a href="http://use.perl.org" target="_blank">use.perl.org</a>:<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Nice guess, John, but that wasn't it. I'm sure I would have mentioned something about it tonight, if I were (still) a big bag of sick. But really, what I wanted to do was show off NCI (native call interface) in Parrot by intergrating a big C++ library into Parrot, and making it available from Rakudo. Basically, the Parrot equivalent to XS for Perl 5.<br>
<br>Another month, I hope. :-)<br><br>Cheers,<br> - Richard<br><br></div></div>