Well a little less busy today just a few talks and mine own and then a little Perl6 playtime.
Maxim Vuets (mvuets) gave an interesting talk on that terrible Canadian invention of toki pona. Some-how Max managed to get Perl to work at parsing that language and it gives a whole new meaning to the Practical part of the P in Perl.
Next Dave and I where up with our introduction to Replay which was well received and we had a …
Well after being all Perl6ed out the day before I was up bright eyed and bushy tailed for this year's Swiss Perl Work Shop
The first talk today was by Dr. Tara Andrews (aurum) a most entertaining speaker who can some-how mix arcane Byzantine~Armenian history, the battle between the Epistemology of the Inexact and Exact Sciences, digital rot and open source Perl projects and still…
Well since I was in Olten anyway for the SWP I might as well take in the Perl6 workshop. I initialy signed up to do some install testing on windows 64 which according to the many rumors I have herd it would be a nightmare wrapped up in a nice bow.
So after arriving a little later than expected and seeing the good old familiar faces I grabbed a seat and began to play.
The first stop was getting started page on Perl6.org and within a few mins…