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2006.12.26

Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 17-23 December, 2006

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"Short answer: absolutely.

"Long answer: emphatically not."

-- Larry Wall, in 'RAII in Perl6/Parrot'

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2006.12.17

Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 10-16 December, 2006

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"With the little sense of smell I have left, this smells like INTERCAL's 'COME FROM' statement to me..."

-- Larry Wall, who has a cold, in 'supertyping'

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2006.12.10

Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 3-9 December, 2006

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"Your faithful Dynamic Environmentalist"

-- closing signature of Bob Rogers in 'RFC: Proposal for dynamic binding'

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2006.12.03

Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 26 November - 3 December, 2006

This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists

"... On the sixth day of Christmas my true love sent to me,
Six versions of Perl,
FIVE LANGUAGES COMPILING!
Four bytes of bytecode,
Three POST nodes,
Two ASTs,
And a Partridge with a parse tree."

-- Jonathan Worthington, 'Naming PAST-pm compiler tool chain'

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