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Andrea Fleiszer (AndreaF@ActiveState.com)
Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:36:52 -0800
Curious about the planned changes in Perl 6? Get the latest from one of the
Perl 6 release managers, Adam Turoff...
Perl 6
Speaker: Adam Turoff, Developer, ActiveState
Where: ActiveState HQ, 580 Granville St.
When: January 24, 2001 @ 6:30-7:30 pm
Cost: Free
ABSTRACT
At the fourth Perl Conference (TPC4), the Perl Developer community committed
themselves to a long term project of reinventing Perl. The next major
release, Perl6, is expected to be available after January 2002, and will be
the community's rewrite of Larry Wall's very popular programming language.
It is being designed from the ground up to support threads, Unicode, and
modern programming practices, like Object Oriented Programming and
Functional Programming. Perl6 will further push the envelope of making easy
things easy and hard things possible.
Just as Perl5 addressed extensibility issues that were found in Perl4, Perl6
is intended to become a "21st Century Perl" and address a few outstanding
issues discovered with Perl5. One specific goal of this reengineering effort
is to restructure the Perl developer community to be more accessible, more
welcoming and more interesting to developers wishing to extend Perl into
exciting new directions.
In this respect, Perl6 may not be backward compatible with previous releases
of Perl. A primary goal of Perl6 is to offer automated migration tools to
translate old Perl code into Perl6 as accurately and painlessly as possible.
BIOGRAPHY
Adam Turoff, Perl Knowledge Manager
A notable member of the Perl Community and co-founder of two Perl user
groups, Adam comes to ActiveState from the United States and has been part
of the ActiveState team since June 2000.
Before joining ActiveState, Adam worked on numerous online publishing
projects in the financial, real estate, training and database publishing
sectors. He has worked with online services providers, both before and
after the advent of the World Wide Web, where high availability and realtime
updates were of the utmost importance. In the training industry, he was
concerned with generating and maintaining large amounts of Web content in an
easily deployable framework. Most recently, Adam has been involved with
design and implementation of multi-gigabyte full-text search engines and
repurposing legacy data into XML.
When not hacking Perl or XML, Adam finds himself advocating Perl and other
open source software. He can occasionally be found reading about the
history of computing or acquiring ancient but noteworthy computers. Adam
received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Drexel
University, Philadelphia, PA.
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