Now that we've all had time to recover from Damian Conway's information-packed presentation at last Monday's tech meeting, here's a followup on the meeting. We had about 55 people, possibly our largest tech meeting ever. After introductions (which take a lot longer with 55 people!), Damian spoke for about three hours on the subject of Perl6. (With frequent threats to talk even longer. :) For more on Perl6, check out http://dev.perl.org Halfway through, there was a break to give away goodies. Joe Johnston had brought several O'Reilly books, including the new XML book which he coauthored. I managed to come up with a new and amusing way to give away the books; each book went to the person who gave the best impression of the animal on the cover! Here's a quick summary: CVS Pocket Reference (x4) Sheep Mastering Algorithms w/ Perl Wolf Advanced Perl Programming Panther Perl for System Administration Otter Programming Web Services w/ XML-RPC Jellyfish There were also several copies of the Proceedings from last year's Perl Conference that Ranga Nathan had brought, and the Boston.com gang gave out funny little packets of paper-like mints. Thanks to Boston.com for hosting, to Damian for presenting, and to everyone who showed up for being there. Next month's meeting will likely be on August 14, the second Tuesday. Ronald
