Re: Larry's ALS talk summary

2000-10-30 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> * XS, the system for extending Perl with C or C++, will be replaced > with something much easier to use. This will give people very > convenient access to existing code libraries, and write C or C++ > subroutines that can be called as Perl subroutines from Perl code > to take

Re: Larry's ALS talk summary

2000-10-30 Thread Nathan Torkington
John Siracusa writes: > Not to seem ungrateful, but is there any hope of getting the slides up as > well? You'd think it'd be a no-brainer, but there have been many Wall > speeches that have gone by with no slides on the web (well, none that I > could find, anyway.) I want to know what the audie

Re: Larry's ALS talk summary

2000-10-30 Thread John Siracusa
Not to seem ungrateful, but is there any hope of getting the slides up as well? You'd think it'd be a no-brainer, but there have been many Wall speeches that have gone by with no slides on the web (well, none that I could find, anyway.) I want to know what the audience is laughing at... :) -Joh

Larry's ALS talk summary

2000-10-30 Thread Nathan Torkington
Here's a summary of the points that came up in Larry's Atlanta Linux Showcase talk. I've run this summary past Larry, and he has approved it as being a fair representation of what he said. Remember that these are just his current thoughts, not concrete decisions. This is available on the web th

Also, rest of Larry's talk transcribed

2000-10-30 Thread Nathan Torkington
Here's the rest of my transcription of Larry's talk. He hasn't had time to proofread it, so I'm posting it now in the interest of getting it out. Ask, please add it to your page at dev.perl.org. When you do, please send mail to pudge and mjd so they can announce the completed transcription on p