Welcome back, Damian. Lo, how we've missed you and Larry these many long months!
Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome. Just to give you an update, I've be ill too (nothing nearly as serious as Larry...just a mild influenza and a little light pneumonia ;-) and I've also been busy attempting to earn a living.
I'm close to a first draft of Exegesis 7 (on formatting), including a module implementing the full functionality. And then I'm looking forward to working with Larry and the rest of the Design Team on Apocalypse/Exegesis 12 (Objects), when Larry is well enough to do so.
I've made no further progress on Perl6::Rules, though I did but in a TPF grant application for a few month's support to let me finish it. I will of course continue working on the module in any case, but only *very* slowly since it will have to be shoe-horned between design, module maintenance, and various income-earning activities.
Meanwhile, we should continue to bear in mind how much *has* already been achieved. Whilst I was on my most recent speaking tour I had the opportunity to give several updated versions of my Perl 6 talk (including the marathon 6-hour version). And once again it brought home to me just how far we've come and how elegant and powerful the result is. We ought to have a:
Perl 6:
Worth waiting for!t-shirt, because it truly is. :-)
Damian
