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Sunday October 10, 2004
06:11 PM

Dinner with Larry

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Well not quite with Larry. He was at the next table with his family.

I dined with Dave Cross, Casey West and some of the Italian Perl mongers. But we chatted afterwards and I even got a photo.

This was after the Italian Code Jam. It was a great day. I really enjoyed Larry's talk which (I think) was entitled "What I have learned in my 50 years" although it had at least 10 other titles as well (including The Perl of Perl). It went on a windy path through ballistics, computer science, Perl culture and Lord of the Rings (eagles were Tolkien's exception handlers) to a destination of Perl 6.

I have been luke warm on Perl 6 up to now but the new syntax and functionality look great.

Needless to say he was asked the million LOC question; When will Perl 6 be out. Larry's answer paraphrased: alpha code next summer hopefully.


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  • You mean, I met you too, and I didn't connect the person with the use.perl handle? {sigh}
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    • Randal L. Schwartz
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    • Sorry, I should have introduced myself. The opportunity came but went. :-(

      BTW, are you going to post some of the pictures you were taking with that super-duper looking camera of yours.

      • I won't have decent upload bandwidth until after I get home, about 5 days from now. Look for them then, under trips-2004 [stonehenge.com] somewhere.
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