>>>>> "TM" == Tom Metro <[email protected]> writes:
TM> I attended the MIT presentation. I didn't notice many Boston.pm-ers TM> there, aside from Uri, of course, who made a call for MIT faculty and TM> staff to talk to him about YAPC (I don't think he got any takers, TM> unfortunately; maybe we should have distributed fliers to the crowd or TM> something?) I think long time Boston.pm lurker Aaron Sherman TM> introduced himself to Uri after the talk. i recognized at least 10-15 boston.pm'ers. a few included tom, bill ricker, steve scaffidi, bob rogers, duane, frederico, andrew langmead (lurking these days but he used to host us at boston.com), and others. TM> I'd estimate the hall was about 3/4 full, with 120 ~ 150 people. The TM> talk with QA ran almost 2 hours, with only a few people leaving before TM> the first hour was up. Quite a few left by 6 PM. i would say more like 100 but i didn't try to make a better counting. TM> Not surprisingly it sounds like the talk followed the same format as TM> the Harvard talk, with the first half being some historical background TM> leading to Perl done with lots of humor, and the second half talking TM> about Perl 6 specifics. i liked the first part and wished he had some way to shorten the second part. it felt rushed and i also thought the biggest thing in perl6 the grammar/rules stuff was given short shrift. much of the rest was fancy ops and OO stuff but evolving regexes into the inheritable rules system is a major breakthrough. most all of the other new stuff in perl6 are stolen or influenced by other langs. but the rules engine is new ground and one of the more accessible things since everyone knows some regex stuff. TM> Perhaps the most significant point made in the latter half was the TM> degree to which they've designed Perl 6 to be extensible, such that TM> the extensions are "first class" members of the lexicon and not hacked TM> on with syntax that is inconsistent with the built-in functions. good point. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [email protected] -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Free Perl Training --- http://perlhunter.com/college.html --------- --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
