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Matt�Fowles�

is the Perl 6 summarizer.

This Week in Perl 6, August 17-23, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6i seeing the most HLL discussion yet; p6l debating binding, parameters, and primitives; and p6c appreciating pretty graphics. [Aug 25, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, August 2-9, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6i seeing build and platform patches, p6l exploring meta-meta discussions, and p6c enjoying Pugs and PxPerl releases. [Aug 11, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, July 20-26, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6i discussing garbage collection schemes, p6l rethinking object attribute access and plotting GC APIs and access, and p6c reporting problems, documenting PIL, and discussing the grammar. [Jul 28, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, July 5-12, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with p6l discussing metamodels, MMD, and invocants; p6i handling Leo's new calling conventions; and p6c plotting on retargeting Pugs to different back ends. [Jul 14, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, June 21-28, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with p6c discussing self-hosting options for Perl 6, Parrot segfaults and changes; and AUTOLOAD and self method invocation discussions continuing on p6l. [Jun 30, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, May 25, 2005-May 31, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Parrot keys, MMD, Tcl, Python discussion, Pugs' continued evolution, introspection, generation, and more Perl 6 meta-programming goodness. [Jun 2, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, May 3, 2005 - May 17, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs gaining object support, Parrot 0.2.0 released, and Perl 6 going through a reduction (though not in volume). [May 19, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, April 26 - May 3, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.2 released, Parrot freezing for a release, and the great debate over invocant naming continuing. [May 5, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, April 12 - 19, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with Pugs 6.2.0 released, documentation patches, a switch to Subversion, and scope, whitespace, and character class questions. [Apr 21, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, March 22 - April 3, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with p6l discussing converters and S03 and S29 updates, p6c finding and fixing bugs in Pugs, and p6i cleaning up code and welcoming Chip. [Apr 7, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, March 7 - March 21, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the resurgence of Perl 6 language questions, implementation decisions galore, and a new Parrot chief architect. [Mar 24, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 23 - March 7, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the release of Parrot 0.1.2, lots of Pugs patches, and a plea for off-list summarization help. [Mar 10, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, Feb. 9-22, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with kudos to Autrijus, still more plans for the Parrot 0.1.2 release, and lots and lots and lots of words about junctions. [Feb 24, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, Feb. 1 - 8, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with bugfixes, plans for a Parrot 0.1.2 release, and the introduction of Featherweight Perl 6, an actual implementation. [Feb 10, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, Jan. 19-31, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with more Parrot calling conventions, Perl 6 loop-ending and loop-continuing semantics, and evil thoughts from Luke Palmer. [Feb 3, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, Jan. 11-18, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with idioms, loop counters, method-calling semantics, and the return of Dan Sugalski. [Jan 20, 2005]

This Week in Perl 6, January 03 - January 11, 2005
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with bugfixes, multimensional data structures, and a new syntax engine. [Jan 13, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 21 - 31 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with the final summary of 2004. What's on the lists? Patches, design decisions, and lots of theory. [Jan 6, 2005]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 7-20 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list discusses hashes, classes, and variables; the Perl 6 Compiler list launches code; and the Parrot list fixes lots and lots of bugs. [Dec 29, 2004]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 1 - 6 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list discusses a shiny new syntax update, and the Parrot list discusses what is and isn't up for grabs. [Dec 9, 2004]

This Fortnight in Perl 6, November 16-30 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the introduction of the Parrot Grammar Engine! [Dec 2, 2004]

This Week in Perl 6, November 9 - 15 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the Parrot list discussing continuations and the unchanging calling conventions, the Perl 6 folks discussing exports, and the Perl 6 Compiler list still strangely quiet. [Nov 18, 2004]

This Week in Perl 6, November 2 - 8 2004
Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists, with the Parrot folks talking about optimizations not to apply yet, the Perl 6 people receiving updated Synopses and Apocalypses, and the Perl 6 Internals team being strangely quiet. [Nov 11, 2004]

This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004 Part Two
Matt Fowles summarizes two more weeks of the Perl 6 mailing lists in the last half of October. [Nov 4, 2004]

This Fortnight on Perl 6, October 2004
In a stunning achievement, Matt Fowles makes his debut as the new Perl 6 summarizer, covering all three major mailing lists through the first half of October. [Oct 28, 2004]