Damian Conway talk on Perl 6, Melbourne Feb 17

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

Damian Conway will give a talk on the current state of Perl 6 on Feb 17 at the WEHI (Parkville). Everyone is welcome, no registration required.

Tuesday 17 February, 11am
WEHI Lecture Theater
(http://www.wehi.edu.au/about/locations.html)
Parkville

Prof Damian Conway
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University.

Title: The Perl 6 Programming Language

Abstract: Perl 6 will be a major improvement on Perl 5 in many ways: syntactically, semantically, psychologically, and performance-wise. This talk looks at what is known, surmised, guessed, wished for, and dreaded about Perl 6. It discusses the history, motivations, syntax, semantics, and likely idioms of the new Perl.

[duff]

To all those that attend, be sure to prod Damian about Perl6::Rules!

[TheDamian]

No prodding needed. Last month the Perl Foundation generously offered me a small grant to complete it. It's now around 75% implemented and will be finished and on the CPAN by April.

I'll probably demo it during the talk.

[Anomynous Monk]

You forgot to include this link:
http://perlfoundation.org/index.cgi?page=contrib

[Roger]

I want to thank Damian for the Perl 6 talk. That was excellent. :-) Too bad I attended the seminar an hour late because of production issues at work. But luckily I didn't miss too much I think. :-)

Damian's presentation was very clear and concise, I enjoyed listening to him very much.

After seen what Perl 6 can do, my overall attitude about Perl 6 has changed a bit. I have turned from a non-believer of Perl 6 to someone who's eager to get his hands on it.

That I did. I downloaded parrot (with incomplete Perl 6 language parser) after getting back to work, and started to play with it a bit. I think it's not a bad idea afterall, especially if I could use the JIT of parrot to compile Perl 6 into native machine code (I am doing research on this at the moment), or just write a stub that has parrot attached with compiled pbc's (Parrot Byte Codes). I always wanted a true Perl compiler, and Perl 6 + Parrot seems to give the answer.

[Anonymous Monk]

So if I'm not mistaken, you were late AND your mobile phone rang during the talk, hummm ??? ;-) apologies if more than one person was late and if it wasn't you Zorglub

[Roger]

Yeah, that was me. I have a feeling that I knew you back in Melbourne Uni? :-)

[Abigail-II]

I'll drop by if I happen to be in the neighbourhood.

Abigail

[Roger]

Cool, that's just 10 minutes away from where I am. I will definitely attend. :-)

[zentara]

I learned a new cool phrase from this post, from the WEHI logo.

Fiat Lux....Let there be light. Fiat Lux

Let there be Perl6 before I get too old to care anymore. :-)