r10000!

As seen on #perl6:

< svnbot6> r10000 | audreyt++ | * Perl6::Overview::Smartmatch - Smart Matching
< svnbot6> r10000 | audreyt++ |   (Happy Birthday, Audrey. :-))

Three and half hours into my 25th birthday, I committed the 10000th revision to Pugs.  That was the last one in a series of commits to convert the highly popular docs/quickref/ tree to Perl6::Overview::*, in preparation for the CPAN release of Perl6::Doc.

Whilst I'm writing this, #perl6 and #parrot are both abuzz with commits, announced by svnbot.p6 -- in the past hour, xinming coded the newly specced &?ROUTINE to the Haskell tree (and narrowly missed r10k); fglock made Pugs::Grammar::Perl6 parse all our sanity tests; pmichaud, particle, leo and me all hacked on Parrot/Perl6, which now passed the second sanity test; a grammar and operator prototypes is gradually emerging toward valid-Perl6-ness required for self hosting...

...Indeed, among the past 14 months since I started participating in Perl 6 development, the community had never been so lively and synergetic as this moment. Kudos to all our ship-builders, and many, many happy returns!

Comments

[András Bártházi]

Congrats for R10000 (what a huuuge number!), and for your birthday, too! ;)

[grumpY!]

there is a renewed sense of energy in perl6 development, and these blog postings have been very educational and fun to read. the regularity of parrot releases has also help signal development inertia to the rest of the world. thanks especially to you audrey for charging up this process.

[grumpY!]

now i would like to make some requests known:

1. with the great progress across all aspects of perl6 development, a birds-eye doc of some kind would be nice. something to tell me what code does what, what state it is at, and what language features each supports.

2. a hugs build that can be completely located in $HOME for isolation

3. a perl6 language guide for learners who have installed parrot and pugs and want to know what they can code now.

4. weekly summaries to be coded up again, what happened to these? the last perl6 weekly summary is months old.