> > Eventually, of course, we'll have to go back and make eveything
> > copacetic, but at the moment I think most folks would rather have us
> > working on writing unwritten A's and E's, rather than rewriting
> > written ones. ;-)
>
> Point. Maybe someone will step up to plate and do Perl 6 so far in a
> nutshell; and will keep it up to date. Maybe that someone will be me,
> but if anyone else would like to volunteer...
Eventually Larry and/or I will have to go back and work the whole thing
through. I've already had thoughts on "Perl 6 in a Nutshell", and I'm
sure Larry will want to do "Programming Perl 6".
The problems with having someone update the previous documents are:
a) We lose the historical development,
b) It's a constantly moving target (go back and read the
early A's and E's and see just how much has changed every
single time we released another A or E),
c) Larry would still have to executive edit the changes, and
that would take far too much of his time (just dealing with
the Exegeses takes far too much of his time).
I guess the closest thing we have to your desired "nutshell" are my
half-yearly
updates to my "Perl 6" talk (another of which is due in the next month
or so).
The notes from that talk always go up on http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/
but I don't try to update them more often that semi-annually, otherwise I'd be
updating them semi-daily! ;-)
Damian
