On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > I know some notes and opinions were collected at the time. But now > we've all had time to reflect, what are your thoughts and ideas? We aim > to run the main event this side of Xmas, which isn't that far away really. > > I popped onto the Perl 6 IRC channel:- > http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2010-06-17 > > Martin Berends asked if I'd summarize our findings, so I'll do a blog > post on it. > > If all that attended could post about your experience, findings, code > samples, etc, others on the list can see and I can cite you for my blog. > > > Lyle
Main thing: I think we could use a bit more structure for the real event. It felt a little aimless and that could be worse with a larger group, especially if some of those attending are more out of their depth than we were. We should have a deal more time for the real event, so that shouldn't be a problem. I think the simplest way of providing structure is to have a list of small coding challenges to pick one from and implement in Perl 6; obviously the emphasis is on the Perl 6 not the coding challenge, so they'll need to be fairly simple. I'll see if I can come up with some examples. We could borrow some things from CodeKata if we want some tougher examples. As far as my experience of trying to pick up some Perl 6 goes, it was an interesting combination of a lot of excitement at some very powerful features, plus some puzzlement at a few obscure features that I can't see myself ever using. Working from the synopses was OK, but not ideal since they're more reference material than tutorial. Nige has the code we came up with, one thing I do remember from it was that there seemed to be a lot of different ways to do things (surprise surprise) but no clear indication of which was more correct or what the tradeoffs were (if any). In some cases we took a guess at correct syntax until it worked. Partly this will be down to not having the right mental model yet for the things we were working with. That's all that occurs for now. Alex _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
