> I support the notion of distributing binaries because nobody's gonna
> want to chew up their phone's battery doing unnecessary compiles. The
> ecology of computing devices is different from ten years ago.
And, in fact, binary distribution is something that's been done on CPAN
for quite a whil
We're pleased to announce that we've selected Jonathan Worthington as
a recipient of a Perl 6 microgrant. Jonathan is one of the top
contributors to Rakudo Perl 6 and has been contributing to Parrot
since 2003. The grant will be for travel and accommodation to the
French Perl Workshop and the Nor
I'm pleased to announce that the Perl 6 parts of /Perl 6 and Parrot
Essentials/
are now available at http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/tutorial/ [1]
for your hacking
pleasure.
Thanks to Allison for navigating the sometimes murky waters of
copyright assignment
and licensing to get this docum
On Jun 18, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Allison Randal wrote:
I just signed an agreement with O'Reilly that assigns the full
copyright
in the book "Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials" to The Perl Foundation.
The
text is out-of-date, but can be updated much more rapidly than it
can be
r
I'm pleased to announce the inaugural Perl 6 Microgrants program.
Best Practical Solutions (my company) has donated USD5,000 to The
Perl Foundation to help support Perl 6 Development. Leon Brocard,
representing The Perl Foundation's grants committee, will work with
me to select proposals a
On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
I think the ¥ and Y operators are going to have to change to
something else.
The current Y has at least four strikes against it:
* It's an ASCII version of a cute Unicode picture, but other
than that,
the picture it doesn't remind
