On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:27 -0700, "Jonathan Duke Leto" <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > > I gave a talk about PL/Parrot and PL/Perl6 at PGDay 2011, check out > the video if that floats your boat: > > http://vimeo.com/27975448 > > Please tell me if I said something really dumb, because I haven't > watched the video. > > Duke
Here are my random-flavored thoughts in roughly chronological order: Jon Orwant was the one who legendarily threw mugs against a wall and said that the Perl community's leaders needed to find something to get the community excited about. You had a nice sneaky way of introducing some cool syntax from Perl 6. The "$^" syntax that was confusing is used for self-declaring formal positional parameters. These get positional parameters according to alphabetical order of the variable names. Since $^limit was the only $^ variable, it got the sub's first argument. jnthn wrote a pretty sweet Perl 6 grammar debugger and tracer and gave a talk on it at yapc::eu. His slides are at http://tinyurl.com/grammar-debugger . If you've had to debug a grammar, take a look at the slides. I'll be promoting this every time I mention Perl 6 grammars in the future, especially once he ports it to nqp. Overall, I liked watching this. Going to YAPC::EU showed me what's happening in the Perl 6 world and this reiterated what kind of things pg-land is doing and cares about. It's great to get more projects using Parrot for varying divergent purposes and I'm glad that you're going out there and showing off what you've been doing. Christoph _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
