Another week, another summary, and I’m running late. So: This week in perl6-compiler The current state of the compiler Discussion of the current state of the nascent perl 6 compiler and how best to contribute to its development even…
This week on perl6-compiler Yes you read that right; development of the Perl 6 compiler now has its own mailing list. Hopefully, in the coming weeks, the current perl6-internals list will get renamed parrot-internals to reflect that split. As I…
Another week, a free weekend, and still I haven’t started writing the summary until Monday. Still, I don’t actually start at college ’til next week, so that’s all right then. We start with perl6-internals. Compile op with return values…
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-08-20 Harrumph. Note to self; never miss a week when you could actually have written the summary. I lulled myself into a false sense of security with the quiet week for…
As I threatened last week, I’m moving the rollover point for these summaries from midnight on Sunday/Monday to midnight on Friday/Saturday, but rather than do it in one swell foop, I’m doing a couple of six-day weeks. The theory…
Following last week’s bizarrely dated summary (I misplaced a day) we’re back with the correct week-ending date, but I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve slipped to writing on a Tuesday again. My head hangs in shame and I am…
Another week, another Perl 6 Summary. This is becoming a habit. Let’s do perl6-internals first, shall we? Japhy’s Perl 6 Rules Parser Last week Jeff ‘Japhy’ Pinyan announced that he’d be working on a Perl 6 rules parser once…
What’s this? No! It can’t be! It’s a weekly Perl 6 Summary. What is the world coming to? Sorry, I can’t answer that one, so I’ll tell you what’s been happening this week in perl6-internals. Bignums, licenses, pie As…
Good evening. You find me typing away in a motel room on the edge of the Lake District on the shortest night of the year. I suppose, by rites, I should be spending the night by some stone circle drinking,…
Whee! There’s a new graphics card in the G5, which means I can type this at the big screen again, which makes me happy. Well, it would make me far happier if the new card didn’t leave horrible artifacts…
Yes. I know. This week’s summary is a week late. So it’s a summary of the last two weeks. So let’s get straight to perl6-internals shall we? Working on the Perl 6 Compiler Abhijit A. Mahabal posted his first…
Ooh look. Stuff’s been happening in perl6-internals again. Will wonders never cease? Building NCI by default Bernhard Schmalhofer posted a patch to turn on building libnci.so by default so that the tests in t/pmc/nci.t would get run on more…
So, May Day didn’t quite knock me for six this year (but being up at 4am on Newcastle Town Moor on Saturday morning to welcome in the summer with a bunch of rapper dancers is guaranteed to leave a chap…
And we’re back on a weekly schedule again (unless the Mayday bank holiday knocks me for six next week). As I expected, the Apocalypse has brought out a rash of prophets and prognosticators in perl6-language, but perl6-internals is still…
The only problem with summarizing two week’s worth of Perl 6 happenings is that there’s twice as much stuff to summarize. Still, there’s no way I could have made the time to write a summary last week so I’ll…
Wednesday? Why did I leave it ’til Wednesday to write the summary? I must have some reason. Or maybe not. I’ll give fair warning that I won’t be doing a summary for next week though, what with Easter and everything,…
This is the 7th annual State of the Perl Onion speech, wherein I tell you how Perl is doing. Perl is doing fine, thank you. Now that that’s out of the way, I’d like to spend the rest of…
Editor’s note: Perl 6 Essentials is the first book to offer a peek into the next major version of the Perl language. It covers the development of Perl 6 syntax as well as Parrot, the language-independent interpreter developed as…
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