[tpm] Wazzup for Thursday?

[Indy Singh]

Will this "Parrot and Rakudo" thing work on a Windows PC?

Indy Singh
IndigoSTAR Software -- www.indigostar.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James E Keenan" <jkeen at verizon.net>
To: "Toronto Perl Mongers" <tpm at to.pm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:19 PM
Subject: [tpm] Wazzup for Thursday?


> Alright, I've arrived in Toronto.  Now why couldn't you arrange for
> the balmy spring weather I got when I visited To. the last week of
> March 4 years ago, eh?
>
> Have noted the absence of any discussion re this Thursday's to.pm
> meeting.  Was speaking with Alan R via that ancient communication
> medium, the telephone, and he urged me to post some ideas.
>
> 1.  I have a talk, "Better Code via Coverage Analysis during
> Testing," which I first gave at Pittsburgh Perl Workshop last
> October.  IIRC, it's supposed to fit into a 45-minute time slot.
>
> 2.  "Parrot and Rakudo:  Getting to 'Hello, World'":  If we had
> gotten a hackathon session together for Saturday (which we haven't so
> far), this was something I was going to toss out.  The concept is
> simple:  Everybody brings in a wireless-equipped laptop, downloads
> Parrot, tries to configure, build and test Parrot, and then tries to
> build Rakudo:  the Perl 6 implementation on Parrot.  We see what
> obstacles we face in getting to first light and collaborate in
> troubleshooting.
>
> jimk
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