TechCoffee, Playing with Perl 6
I went to my first TechCoffee this morning. I want to use that valuable, early morning, low stress, bleary eyed time to explore Perl 6. I’m working through the synopses one at a time, and keeping notes as I go. The notes are executable. I’m checking them into my public repository here http://lonelylion.com/mcavoy_public/perl6_play/
They’re pretty train of thought, so they’re probably confusing. I tried to backtrack occasionally to write a wee bit more for people that aren’t me. I may end up jumping around the synopses a bit, as I’m not entirely sure the order is important.
I worked through the first ten pages of synopses 2 today. That’s about 1/3rd of the way through. Notes are here. It’s jumping around to a lot of concepts (like OO) that haven’t been introduced yet, which leads me to believe the synopses aren’t meant to be read in order, the numbering is just a tie back to the apocalypses and exegesis.
At this velocity, I should be done with all the synopses in July 2007. Egads. I won’t be able to make TechCoffee every week. I’m shooting for alternating Mondays. So I should be able to cover a synopses a month. I’ll probably poke around on the train too, so July 2007 might be a bit of exageration. I don’t anticipate being through these things anytime soon though. I want to take my time. This is an interesting project for me, I’m used to living in the “Learning [insert language]” book from O’Reilly tier of learning. This is a big change.
