This week on Perl 6 (10/20-27, 2002)
You may have noticed that this summary is late. Um … [looks sheepish, shuffles feet], the dog ate my homework. I did a tiny bit of procrastination at the beginning of the week and then got totally overtaken by…
This week on Perl 6 (10/7-14, 2002)
This is yet another Perl 6 summary documenting what has happened over on the perl6-internals (where Parrot, the virtual machine that will run Perl 6 is discussed) and perl6-language (where Perl 6 language design is discussed) mailing lists. Piers is…
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This week on Perl 6 (9/30 - 10/6, 2002)
This is yet another Perl 6 summary, documenting what has happened over on the perl6-internals (where Parrot, the virtual machine that will run Perl 6, is discussed) and perl6-language (where Perl 6 language design is discussed) mailing lists. Piers is…
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This week on Perl 6 (9/23 - 9/29, 2002)
Okay, this is my last summary before I take a couple of week’s holiday away from any form of connectivity. Will I cope? Can my system stand going cold turkey? Can you live without my summaries? Luckily, Leon Brocard…
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This week on Perl 6 (9/16 - 9/22, 2002)
So, another week, another Perl 6 summary. Let’s see if I can get through this one without calling Tim Bunce ‘Tim Bunch’ shall we? Or maybe I should leave a couple of deliberate errors in as a less than…
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This week on Perl 6 (9/9 - 9/15, 2002)
Happy birthday to me! // Happy birthday to me! // Happy birthday, dear meeeee! // Happy birthday to me! And, with a single breech of copyright, Piers was free. The production of this summary was delayed by my turning…
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This week on Perl 6 (9/1 - 9/8, 2002)
Well, what a week it’s been, eh, people? Larry’s been telling the Slashdot crowd about quantum God and big knobs, there’s been a call for Perl 6 programmers on Perlmonks (http://makeashorterlink.com/), and the Octarine parrot took flight. So, let’s…
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This week on Perl 6 (8/26 - 9/1, 2002)
Well, it has been a week. Damian came to London and made our heads spin; perl6-language erupted in a flurry of interesting, high signal/noise threads; Parrot reached its 0.0.8 release; Larry made many of his wonderfully unexpected but obviously…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-18)
The story so far… Larry, Tom, Randal, Damian, Jon, Chip, Gnat, Ziggy, Dick and the rest of the gang were chatting with all the other cool Perl kids about where Perl was and should be going. Then Jon threw a…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-11)
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-04)
Back on the regular schedule complete with new and improved article links via those lovely people at Google groups. Hopefully, we’ll be staying on this schedule for the foreseeable future. As usual, we’ll kick off with perl6-internals, which was,…
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This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-07-21)
Another week, another Perl 6 summary. Cunningly this week I have taken over the summary from Piers in order to make it easier for me to namecheck myself. It’s been a good week too, with more happening in perl6-internals…
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This Week on Perl 6 (8 - 14 Jul 2002)
Still waiting for Exegesis 5? Is Parrot a second system? Don’t mix labels and comments Perl 6 grammar, take 5 So, what is IMCC then? Vtables and multimethod dispatch Building support for non-native bytecode Mutable vs. immutable strings Adding…
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This week on Perl 6 ~(24-30 June 2002)
Notes Experimenting with a slightly different format this week (theft from NTKnow considered sensible …), I’ll also be looking at some of the things that’ve been posted on use.perl.org (and I’d really appreciate some reports on the YAPC Perl6 chats…
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This Week on Perl 6 (3 -9 Mar 2002)
Notes Both the email subscription and the web archive are temporarily offline. This should be remedied shortly. In the meantime, please send additions, submissions, corrections, kudos, and complaints to bwarnock@capita.com. Perl 6 is the major redesign and rewrite of…
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These Weeks on Perl 6 (10 Feb - 2 Mar 2002)
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This Fortnight on Perl 6 (27 Jan - 9 Feb 2002)
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This Week on Perl 6 (13 - 19 Jan 2002)
This summary, as with past summaries, can be found in here. (Note that this is an @Home address, and will change sometime in the next two months.) Please send additions, submissions, corrections, kudos, and complaints to bwarnock@capita.com. Perl 6…
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This Week on Perl 6 (6 - 12 Jan 2002)
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This Week on Perl 6 (30 December 2001 - 5 Jan 2002)
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