[VPM] March 15th meeting subject

Peter Scott Peter at PSDT.com
Wed Mar 9 11:29:22 PST 2005


I saw your post on perl6.language.  I think this is a great idea.  I 
could stand to learn some of that Perl 6 syntax myself :-)

Abram, would you do the honours please?

At 11:46 PM 3/8/2005, Darren Duncan wrote:
>We should start planning for the March meeting now, since its only a 
>week away.
>
>Last month I suggested that I could talk more about my database stuff 
>this month.
>
>However, in the last day or so I came up with something different that 
>may be more interesting in the short term.
>
>I have since 2-3 days ago signed on to the Pugs project semi full time 
>and can relate some of the experiences of doing this at the meeting.
>
>For those of you out of the loop, Pugs is a Perl 6 implementation 
>written in Haskell.  While I don't know any Haskell, this is still a 
>great opportunity to write Perl 6 code that can actually be executed 
>on something.  Pugs is intended to help flesh out edge cases in the 
>Perl 6 spec and comes in advance of anything working on Parrot.
>
>My main role right now is writing a bunch of Perl 6 code that can be 
>done for integration testing, which is using a variety of language 
>features together.  I have started translating my Perl 5 modules into 
>Perl 6, along with their tests.  In doing so, we can get an idea just 
>how everything would be done in Perl 6 for work that actually does 
>something useful, and isn't just a "sample".
>
>I have already translated my Locale::KeyedText module, whose Perl 6 
>form you can see in the Pugs version control.  Or wait a few days for 
>the next weekly CPAN upload.  I couldn't actually execute it yet, 
>because Pugs is missing some features that it needs, but the fact that 
>I coded this in advance can help them when adding support for said 
>features to Pugs.  My code probably has errors in it.
>
>One thing I can do in the March meeting is have 2 print outs of the 
>module, showing the Perl 5 and Perl 6 versions side by side.  I can 
>also relate some interesting Perl 6 language features that I recently 
>discovered.
>
>At least for now, my role with the development of Perl 6 seems to be 
>important, as no one else as tried to tackle the kind of things I'm 
>doing now.  As the saying goes, if you want to be noticed, get in early.
>
>I could also talk about my database stuff at the March meeting.  Or 
>others of you can talk about subjects you're interested in.
>
>Either way, I think we have enough for a March meeting, so we 
>shouldn't have to cancel it sans the absense of a lot of people.
>
>-- Darren Duncan
>
>P.S. If you're interested in front line Perl stuff, read Autrijus' journal:
>http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/
>He's the head of this Pugs endeavour, which no one was expecting.
>
>P.P.S. Perl 6 is quite exciting.  Lots of good new useful stuff in there.
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Peter Scott
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