user robin I don't use Perl very much any more, and I'm no longer active on this site. I've left most of my old profile information below, with the broken links corrected where possible. (December 2009) I'm a member of <a href="http://London.pm.org/">London.pm</a>, sometime <a href="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/p5pdigest/THISWEEK-20010408.html#Robin_Houston_Left_On_ALL_WEEK">perl5 porter</a>, and [http://search.cpan.org/~robin/|not very prolific CPAN author]. Very occasionally I update my <a href="http://use.perl.org/~robin/journal">journal at use.perl</a>. I think [http://www.pugscode.org|pugs] is cool, and keep up with the latest Perl 6 news by reading [http://planetsix.perl-foundation.org|planetsix]. I expect I'll get involved at some point – I'm looking for a good excuse. I've been tinkering with [dist://PadWalker] recently. It's finally at version 1.0, which is much more robust and has some new features too. I once had the idea of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071222123856/http://www.puffinry.freeserve.co.uk/regex-extension.html">extending</a> the syntax of regular expressions with a recursive construct. I mentioned it in the Monastery <a href="/index.pl?node_id=155869">here</a> and <a href="/index.pl?node_id=160771">here</a>. Larry seems to have <a href="http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg09651.html">different ideas</a> for Perl 6, but the construct did make it into [http://www.pcre.org|PCRE]. I gave a talk on <a href="http://www.yapceurope.org/2001/proceedings/18/slides/0.title.html">Mutagenic Modules</a> at the 2001 <a href="http://www.yapc.org/Europe/">YAPC::Europe</a> conference. I once gave a short talk to London.pm about <a href="http://london.pm.org/~robin/ou-x-po/0.title.html">Oulipo and Perl</a>, which includes the <a href="http://bumppo.net/lists/fun-with-perl/2001/01/msg00019.html">prisoner's JAPH</a>, now in the fascinating <a href="http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh">CPAN JAPH file</a>. My other CPAN module is [dist://Want], which lets you use <a href="http://dev.perl.org/rfc/21.html">Perl 6-style context</a> in Perl 5. My most popular Perl Monks nodes, at the time of writing, are [id://501844], [id://155869], [id://133554] and [id://132862]. 2013-01-23 10:51:08 2216 358698 162 London 1 85