use Perl

Well. To my great surprise, I've been drafted as Fearless Leader of the Parrot project. So much has been done by so many, and now it's time for me to catch up with all those cool things and have intelligent things to say about them. It's quite the responsibility, and I hope to live up to it.

Dan Sugalski has done wonderful work as Parrot architect, and I really can't say that I'm replacing him so much as carrying on ... and not even in his absence, as he's going to hang around as much as Real Life obligations permit. Thanks, Dan, for everything.

Keeping a blog is not really my lifestyle; I'm more of a mail guy. But I've learned to include IRC, so why not yet another medium? It does seem that just about everybody these days has one of those new-fangled "web browsers". So here goes....