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This Week in Perl 6, Through August 14, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with containers and metamodels on the Perl 6 compiler list, metamodel and trait questions on the Perl 6 language list, and opcode changes and test modules on the Perl 6 internals list. [Aug 18, 2005] This Week in Perl 6, through August 2, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with PIL discussion on the Perl 6 compiler list, type and container questions on the Perl 6 language list, and a Lua compiler on the Perl 6 internals list. [Aug 8, 2005] This Week in Perl 6, July 13-19, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs running on a JavaScript engine, GMC plans for Parrot, and typechecking and metamodel discussions about Perl 6. [Jul 21, 2005] This Week in Perl 6, June 29-July 5, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with YAPC::NA hackathons, a request for better archives, DBI v2 plans from Tim Bunce, and PGE interoperability questions. [Jul 7, 2005] This Week in Perl 6, June 8-21, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the Austrian Perl Hackathon, rejiggered registers, frames, and calling conventions in Parrot, and lots of bikeshed painting in Perl 6 language. [Jun 23, 2005] This Week in Perl 6, June 1-7, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Parrot 0.2.1 released, mod_parrot bundled with mod_pugs (or vice versa), an end to the reduce operator debate, and a paean to Parrot lead architect Dan Sugalski. [Jun 9, 2005]This Week in Perl 6, May 18 - 24, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Inline::Pugs bridging the gap, ParTcl coming into existence, and many questions about multimethod dispatch in Perl 6. [May 27, 2005] This Week in Perl 6, April 20 - 26, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.1 released, more MMD schemes, and big discussions of blocks, invocants, and parameters. [May 2, 2005] This Week in Perl 6, April 4-11, 2005 Piers Cawley summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with a new plan for Ponie, a Parrot/Pugs hackathon announcement, and identity tests. [Apr 14, 2005] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-24 Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list discusses rule engine flexibility, the Parrot people discuss the Parrot versions of Forth, Tcl, and Python as well as lexical pads, and the Perl 6 Language list argues about what being in the core really means. [Sep 28, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-17 Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list discusses grammar bootstrapping, the Parrot people debate namespaces again, and the Perl 6 Language list ponders the freshly updated Synopsis 5. [Sep 23, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-10 Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list makes its introduction as Parrot people argue about configuration and namespaces and play Minesweeper and the Perl 6 language list continues to discuss Synopsis 9. [Sep 16, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-03 Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The Parrot folks create some TODOs, hash out math semantics, and discuss cross-compiling. The Perl 6 language folks argue about ranges, roles, pipelines, and PRE and POST hooks. [Sep 9, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-08-20 Better register spilling, COBOL on Parrot, and a re-examination of lookahead from Apocalypse 12. All this and more in the latest Perl 6 summary. [Aug 26, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-31 The pie hits! --more-- [Aug 6, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-18 The Piethon benchmark contest is beginning to loom, and the language list discusses how scalars should be interpolated and subscripted. [Jul 23, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-07-04 Work begins on a Perl 6 regexp parser, and Unicode manipulation of strings prompts discussion on the language list. [Jul 9, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-06-27 Getting ready for the Piethon is a major concern, while the language list deals with various ways of modifying and annotating expressions. [Jul 2, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Fortnight Ending 2004-06-21 Arrays and other classes go into the basic Parrot PMC hierarchy, and Dan finally embraces Unicode while perl6-language ... doesn't. [Jun 24, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Fortnight Ending 2004-06-06 Parrot gets the beginnings of library dynamic loading, and Perl 6 gets a... periodic table? [Jun 9, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-23 Lots of documentation effort on the Parrot list this week, and some work on the Perl 6 compiler, while on the language list, magical new syntaces for filling hashes... [May 27, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-09 The native call interface raises questions on the internals list; Piers Cawley has the details on this and everything else from the Perl 6 effort. [May 14, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-02 The internals list mulls over strings and multi-method dispatch, while Apocalypse 12 continues to intrigue and entertain the language list. [May 7, 2004] This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-04-25 Now that Apocalypse 12 is out, what do the Perl 6 developers think about it? Piers has all the details... [Apr 29, 2004] This Fortnight on Perl 6, Weeks Ending 2004-04-18 Parrot gains the beginnings of some Unicode support, causing much fallout; meanwhile, there's a fight over who gets the backtick operator, and what Perl 6 does to recognize and run Perl 5 code. [Apr 22, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-04-04 This week, the vexed question of how assignment should work returns, and Piers tries to make sense of continuations; meanwhile, the language list comes alive on the first of April... [Apr 4, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-28 The language list is relatively quiet, but the Parrot implementors are haunted by continuations this week. Piers has the full story. [Mar 28, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-21 Concerns about embedding and a new release of Tcl on Parrot occupy the internals mailing list, while the language list experiences some surprise about changes to the hash subscriptor syntax. [Mar 21, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-14 Benchmarks, Ponie and even Ruby drive on Parrot development this week, while the language team discuss methods that mutate their objects and properties that call actions on variables. [Mar 14, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-03-07 Work on objects for Parrot continues, while the perl6-internals list gets dragged into a discussion about date/time handling; the & multimatching operator appears, and a question about detecting undefined subs on the language list. [Mar 7, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-29 More on Parrot's objects, plus some discussion of the Perl 6 release timescale. Will we see Perl 6 this century? [Feb 29, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-22 It had to happen some day - someone wrote obfuscated Parrot assembler. Objects are nearly there, and the fight over "sort" cotinues. [Feb 22, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-15 Parrot gains Data::Dumper, sort and nearly system(), while the language list struggles to agree on the best way to represent multi-level and multi-key sorting. [Feb 15, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-08 This week, the internals team attack the challenges posed by garbage collection and threading, while the Unicode operators debate rages on over at the language list. Piers Cawley has the details. [Feb 8, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-01 Lots of little clean-ups done to Parrot this week, while the Perl 6 language design focuses on vector operations and Unicode operators. [Feb 1, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-25 The internals list is concerned with threading a smattering of other things; the language list debates vector operators and syntax mangling. Piers, as ever, fills us in. [Jan 25, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-11 Parrot fixes to threading, continuations, the JIT and the garbage collector; the Perl 6 language list discusses traits, roles, and, for some reason, the EU Constitution... [Jan 11, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-04 Dan calls for detailed suggestions for the Parrot threading model, and Piers makes up for the lack of activity in the language list by asking a few key players about their New Year hopes for Perl 6. [Jan 4, 2004] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-12-07 Objects all round - Parrot gets objects, and there was much rejoicing. Meanwhile, Larry lifts parts of the veil on the Perl 6 object model. Piers Cawley has the details. [Dec 7, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-30 The IMCC has a FAQ, the Perl 6 compiler gets updated to this month's reality, and Larry explains some more about the properties system. Piers Cawley, as ever, summarizes. [Nov 30, 2003] This fortnight on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-23 Dan returns from LL3 with new ideas, what "multi" really means, and more on the Perl 6 design philosophy - Piers Cawley sums up two weeks on the Perl 6 and Parrot mailing lists. [Nov 23, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-09 People try to get PHP working on Parrot, while the perl6-language list thinks about nesting modules inside of modules. And Piers, dilligent as ever, summarizes all the action for your benefit. [Nov 9, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-11-02 A Hallowe'en release, catering for method calls on empty registers, and Parrot gets a HTTP library. (No, really.) Perl 6 and Parrot news from Piers Cawley. [Nov 2, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-10-26 IMCC becomes more important, how objects can get serialized, and the all-important Infocom interpreter: all the latest Parrot news from Piers. [Oct 26, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-10-19 A new Parrot pumpking, Larry returns, and the Perl 6 compiler actually starts gathering steam... All this and more in this week's Perl 6 summary. [Oct 19, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-10-12 The perl6-language list remains eerily silent, and Leo Tö [Oct 12, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-09-21 The low-down on the 0.0.11 Parrot release, and some blue thinking about clever optimizations - the latest from the Perl 6 world, thanks to our trusty summarizer. [Sep 21, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-09-07 This week in Perl 6, the keyed ops question raises its head again, how to dynamically add singleton methods, and why serialisation of objects is hard. [Sep 7, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-08-31 Continuation passing style, active data, dump PMCs and absolutely nothing at all on the language list. [Aug 31, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-08-17 Python on Parrot is nearly done, what's to do before Parrot 0.1.0, and when should we start writing about Perl 6? Piers Cawley reports on the perl6 mailing lists. [Aug 17, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-08-03 Piers Cawley brings us news of PHP, Java, and Python ports to the Parrot VM, and more Exegesis 6 fall-out. [Aug 3, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-07-20 Threads, Events, code cleanups, and onions top the list of interesting things discussed on the Perl 6 lists this week. Piers Cawley summarizes. [Jul 20, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-07-13 Ponie and Perl6::Rules impressed Perl 6 summarizer Piers Cawley this week. Read on to find out why. [Jul 13, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-07-06 Building IMCC as parrot, a better build system, and Perl 6 daydreams (z-code!) were the topics of note on perl6-internals and perl6-language this week, according to OSCON-session dodging summarizer Piers Cawley. [Jul 6, 2003]This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-22 Continuation Passing Shenanigans, evil dlopen() tricks, and controlling method dispatch dominate perl6-internals and perl6-language, according to fearless summarizer Piers Cawley. [Jun 23, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-29 Exceptions, continuations, patches, and reconstituted flying cheeseburgers all dominated discussion on perl6-internals and perl6-language, according to summarizer Piers Cawley. No kidding. [Jun 23, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-15 All the latest from perl6-language, perl6-internals and even the Perl 6 track at YAPC from our regular summariser, Piers Cawley. [Jun 15, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-08 IMCC becomes Parrot, continuation passing style, timely destruction YET AGAIN, multi-method dispatch and more. [Jun 8, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-06-01 Much more work on IMCC, method calling syntax in Parrot, coroutines attempt to become threads, compile-time binding, and many more discussions in this week's Perl 6 news - all summaries as usual by the eminent Piers Cawley. [Jun 1, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-25 Piers takes a break from traditional English festivities to report on the Perl 6 world: this week, more about timely destruction, the Perl 6 Essentials book, a new layout for PMCs, and a lengthy discussion of coroutines. [May 25, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-18 Garbage collection versus timely destruction, colors in BASIC, how contexts interact, and whether or not we need a special sigil for objects - it's all talk in the Perl 6 world this week. [May 18, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-11 Perl 6 this week brings us news of managed and unmanaged buffers from Parrot's NCI, stack-walking garbage collection, co-routines, and some really horrible heredoc syntax wrangling. [May 11, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-05-04 Piers reports on Parrot's calling conventions, the strange case of the boolean type, and much from the Perl 6 lists this week. [May 7, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-27 Memory allocation, NCI, more about types, and changes in the syntax of blocks - all the latest in the Perl 6 world from Piers Cawley. [Apr 27, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-20 Piers brings us a summary of much discussion of the proposed Perl 6 type system. [Apr 20, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-13 Parrot on Win32, roll-backable variables, and properties versus methods. Piers has the scope, uh, scoop. [Apr 13, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-04-06 Piers reports on the struggle for documentation, the battle of the threading models, and the victory for equality. [Apr 6, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-30 People remain silent about Leo's work, how to do static variables, assignment operators, and more. Piers Cawley has the details. [Mar 30, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-23 Another PDD, and much discussion of the latest Apocalypse. Piers Cawley, as ever, reports... [Mar 23, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-16 Parrot 0.10.0 released, the Apocalypse hits, summarizer not quite buried... [Mar 16, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-09 Object specifications and serialization discussion takes over both lists, and Piers narrowly escapes having to summarise the fallout from the Apocalypse already... [Mar 9, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-03-02 IMCC is still a subject of much debate on the perl6-internals list, while tumbleweed drifts through perl6-language. Piers has the details. [Mar 3, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-23 More from Piers Cawley on Perl 6, IMCC, Parrot's perfomance and the continuing arrays versus lists saga. [Feb 23, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-16 Optimizations to the main loops, reflections from the Perl 6 design meeting, arrays versus lists, and much more... [Feb 16, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-09 Beating Python, Parrot objects, shortcutting assignment operators , and much more... [Feb 9, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-02-02 Packfiles, coroutines, secure sandboxes, Damian takes a break, and much more... [Feb 2, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-01-26 Problems on OS X, targetting Parrot, the pipeline syntax thread refuses to die, and much more... [Jan 26, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-01-19 Yet more on dead object detection and pipeline syntax, (surprise!) eval in Parrot, Larry and others need gainfultude, and much more... [Jan 19, 2003] This week on Perl 6, week ending 2003-01-12 More on dead object detection, pipeline syntax, Perl 6 as a macro language, and much more... [Jan 12, 2003] This week on Perl 6, weeks ending 2003-01-05 Garbage collection, the Ook! language, variables, values and properties, and much more... [Jan 8, 2003] This week on Perl 6 (12/02-08, 2002) Lots of work on IMCC, string literals, zero-indexec arrays, and much more... [Dec 8, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (11/24-12/01, 2002) C# and Parrot again, various visions, and, well, not all that much more... [Dec 1, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (11/17-11/23, 2002) C# and Parrot, the status of 0.0.9, invocant and topics, string concatenation and much, much more... [Nov 27, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (11/10-11/17, 2002) A quick Perl 6 roadmap, plus some JIT improvements, mysterious coredump fixes, continuations, superpositions, invocants, tests, and programming BASIC and Scheme in Parrot. [Nov 21, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (11/03-11/10, 2002) Bytecode fingerprinting, on_exit() portability, memory washing, invocant and topic naming syntax, Unicode operators, operators, more operators, the supercomma, perl6-documentation, Schwern throws the Virtual Coffee Mug, and much more... [Nov 15, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (10/28-11/03, 2002) Bytecode formats, "Simon Cozens versus the world", and more... [Nov 6, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (10/20-27, 2002) C# and Parrot, fun with operators, a license change, and more... [Nov 4, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (9/23 - 9/29, 2002) An IMCC update, the Scheme interpreter, lists and list references again, and a load besides... [Sep 29, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (9/16 - 9/22, 2002) The neverending keys thread, lists versus list references, and a load besides... [Sep 22, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (9/9 - 9/15, 2002) Goals for the next release, arrays and hashes, hypothetical variables, getting more Parrot hackers, and a load besides... [Sep 15, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (9/1 - 9/8, 2002) Goals for the next release, arrays and hashes, hypothetical variables, getting more Parrot hackers, and a load besides... [Sep 8, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (8/26 - 9/1, 2002) More talk of garbage collection, the never-ending keys debate, Parrot 0.0.8, lots and lots about regular expressions, and a good deal more... [Sep 1, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-18) Much ado about regexes, a pirate parrot, (it had to happen...) and more... [Aug 18, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-11) Arrays, Garbage collection, keys, (again) regular expressions on non-strings, and more... [Aug 11, 2002] This week on Perl 6 (week ending 2002-08-04) More ops, JIT v2, Regex speed and more... [Aug 5, 2002] This Week on Perl 6 (8 - 14 Jul 2002) Second system effect, IMCC, Perl 6 grammar, and much more... [Jul 14, 2002] This week on Perl 6 ~(24-30 June 2002) Processes, iterators, fun with the Perl 6 grammar and more... [Jul 2, 2002] Perl 6 : Not Just For Damians Most of what we've heard about Perl 6 has come from either Larry or Damian. But what do average Perl hackers think about the proposed changes? We asked Piers Cawley for his opinions. [Oct 23, 2001]
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