Piers, Thanks for all the work you've done in keeping us up-to-date with Perl 6 developments. Your summaries have been crucial in convincing folks out there that much progress is being made, and that Perl 6 will be a language worth the wait.
Kind regards, Paul Grassie [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I tried, I really did, but I'm afraid that I must raise the white flag > to my teacher training for the next while and give up writing the Perl 6 > Summary until at least after Christmas. > > I've had a great time doing this for the last two and a half years, I > hope you've all enjoyed it too. It's been a privilege to see the > progress that's been made with Parrot since I started. Dan, Leo and the > rest of the p6i team have done fantastic work -- it's only when you stop > to think about what Parrot looked like two years ago and then compare it > with the recent release that you get a real sense of how far we've > come. Thanks guys. > > Thanks to the language folks, Larry, Allison, Damian, and all the > many and various denizens of perl6-language. Following the list has > been an education. Every time I find myself thinking a proposal is > simply poisonous, along comes Larry in fugu-chef mode to extract the > good stuff that sets your mind a tingling and chuck away the stuff that > would leave you paralyzed and dying on the floor. I don't know how he > does it, but I'm very glad that he can. It's no wonder that p6l felt > like it was spinning its wheels for a while there while Larry was busy > being ill. > > Thanks to O'Reilly for continuing to publish the summaries on perl.com, > and to Robert Spier and Ask for holding their archives on perl.org (and > for all the other work they do for perl.org, including the various RT > installations). The work they did in getting the perl6 lists onto > groups.google.com made the task of working out appropriate URLs for > messages far easier than in the bad old days. > > Thanks to everyone who ever sent me feedback; I've mentioned Warnock's > dilemma many times in these summaries, it's always good to be gently > lifted from its horns by a word or two of praise or damnation. While I'm > about it, thanks to Bryan Warnock for first identifying his dilemma and > for writing the original Perl 6 summaries that gave me the idea in the > first place. > > Thanks to you all for reading, whether you sent me feedback or not. > > I'm not about to stop writing. I'm slowly working through chromatic's > 'Write Your Life' project. It's far easier than summarizing; all the > material I need is already in my head, and I can bash out words even > when I don't have net access. I may not have stopped writing the > summaries for good either; I just haven't got computrons to spare for > writing them at the moment. But if any of you are thinking "I could do > that!" then don't let me stop you -- there's an awful lot goes on on the > lists, and there's a lot of interested people who don't have the time to > keep up with them. A regular summary helps the interested but busy > people get a grasp of how the Perl 6 project is getting on, and that can > only be a good thing. > > Sorry things have rather fizzled out; I just didn't realise until I > started quite how demanding this course would be. And I don't just mean > because I've got to wear a suit. > > -- > Piers Cawley -- Former Perl 6 Summarizer > http://www.bofh.org.uk/ >
