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<node id="329616" title="Re: Damian Conway talk on Perl 6, Melbourne Feb 17" created="2004-02-17 10:05:03" updated="2004-08-22 17:23:51">
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Roger</author>
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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. :-)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Damian's presentation was very clear and concise, I enjoyed listening to him very much.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</field>
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