The Perl 6 Essentials book
Dan Sugalski
know what, why, how, and all that sort of stuff.
The short story is that back in the fall sometime, Allison Randal
pitched a Perl 6 book at O'Reilly. While perl 6 isn't done, and a lot
of information is available online, many people like books, and Ora
felt that folks would but the thing. Which is fine, and we'll see how
that goes.
Allison tagged me to write the parrot architecture chapter, and when
she decided that some actual real assembly was in order (since we do,
after all, have a working VM.... :) the logical guy to tag was Leo,
so she did.
Now, this book is on a tight schedule and, as such, went through a
small tech edit phase. The more people you have the longer it takes,
and this was moving reasonably quickly. (OTOH, the folks doing tech
edit were competent without being in the loop, so the commentary was
quite useful) Allison handled that end of things, as it is her book,
and the fact that nobody on-list got tagged was really just an
oversight by a few really over-worked folks, and for that I'm quite
sorry.
Anyway, here's the upshot. Assuming I'm involved, when it comes time
to do a 2nd edition, I *will* make sure it gets announced here. I
can't guarantee how many technical readers there'll be, as that's a
publisher decision, but we'll try to make sure at least one person
from the list reads the proofs. (Having internal and external readers
is good)
I'll also try and make sure that the folks with CVS access, as well
as some long-time contributors, get a comp copy. Now, this is
something I can't *promise*, but I do get some author copies, I can
nudge O'Reilly, and authors can get books at a discount, so I can
likely swing some copies that way as well. (Assuming spousal
approval, of course--I don't want to risk the wrath and all... :)
And again, sorry about not keeping folks up to date. I plead
desperate overwork and a memory that's very much like something that
I can't actually remember at the moment.
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Dan Sugalski
>And again, sorry about not keeping folks up to date. I plead
>desperate overwork and a memory that's very much like something that
>I can't actually remember at the moment.
D'oh! Damn memory. I should add that I really, *really* thought I'd
mentioned the book to the list.
Clinton A. Pierce
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noticable just before the summer conferences, and when major documentation
and planning items are due. Symptoms include forgetfulness and
conversations with himself such as the following:
At 04:11 PM 5/26/2003 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>At 4:06 PM -0400 5/26/03, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>And again, sorry about not keeping folks up to date. I plead desperate
>>overwork and a memory that's very much like something that I can't
>>actually remember at the moment.
>
>D'oh! Damn memory. I should add that I really, *really* thought I'd
>mentioned the book to the list.
Memory leaks haven't turned up and he hasn't segfaulted yet, so I wouldn't
consider this a severe bug. I don't have the source code handy to submit a
patch; the usual fix for this is beer and relaxation.
Nicholas Clark
> desperate overwork and a memory that's very much like something that
> I can't actually remember at the moment.
A jumblie's sea-worthy vessel?
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=jumblies+sea
Nicholas Clark
PS As penance, can we have objects? <ducks>
Brent Dax
# I promised a rundown on what's going on with this book so folks would
# know what, why, how, and all that sort of stuff.
#
# The short story is that back in the fall sometime, Allison Randal
# pitched a Perl 6 book at O'Reilly. While perl 6 isn't done, and a lot
# of information is available online, many people like books, and Ora
# felt that folks would but the thing. Which is fine, and we'll see how
# that goes.
Do you have any sort of release date, even a vague or tentative one? I
know it's not usually decided for sure until a few months beforehand,
but do you at least have a season and year?
--Brent Dax <bren...@cpan.org>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
>How do you "test" this 'God' to "prove" it is who it says it is?
"If you're God, you know exactly what it would take to convince me. Do
that."
--Marc Fleury on alt.atheism
Brent Dax
the older half. Sorry.
Dan Sugalski
>Dan Sugalski:
># I promised a rundown on what's going on with this book so folks would
># know what, why, how, and all that sort of stuff.
>#
># The short story is that back in the fall sometime, Allison Randal
># pitched a Perl 6 book at O'Reilly. While perl 6 isn't done, and a lot
># of information is available online, many people like books, and Ora
># felt that folks would but the thing. Which is fine, and we'll see how
># that goes.
>
>Do you have any sort of release date, even a vague or tentative one? I
>know it's not usually decided for sure until a few months beforehand,
>but do you at least have a season and year?
Whups, more I forgot. I do, in fact, have a release date, more or
less. The book won't be ready by YAPC::NA, which is June 16-18. It
probably (hopefully, we're shooting for it) will be ready by OSCON,
which is July 7-11. Seeing as I got the QC PDFs today and they're due
back next monday, I presume this can happen if nothing goes wrong,
but it's all magic to me after that.
Randal L. Schwartz
Dan> Now, this book is on a tight schedule and, as such, went through a
Dan> small tech edit phase. The more people you have the longer it takes,
Dan> and this was moving reasonably quickly. (OTOH, the folks doing tech
Dan> edit were competent without being in the loop, so the commentary was
Dan> quite useful) Allison handled that end of things, as it is her book,
Dan> and the fact that nobody on-list got tagged was really just an
Dan> oversight by a few really over-worked folks, and for that I'm quite
Dan> sorry.
For some variant definition of "nobody on-list" with which I'm
not familiar.
But I think I know what you mean. :)
Just another underobserved tech-editor from said book, :)
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Dan Sugalski
> >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Sugalski <d...@sidhe.org> writes:
>
>Dan> Now, this book is on a tight schedule and, as such, went through a
>Dan> small tech edit phase. The more people you have the longer it takes,
>Dan> and this was moving reasonably quickly. (OTOH, the folks doing tech
>Dan> edit were competent without being in the loop, so the commentary was
>Dan> quite useful) Allison handled that end of things, as it is her book,
>Dan> and the fact that nobody on-list got tagged was really just an
>Dan> oversight by a few really over-worked folks, and for that I'm quite
>Dan> sorry.
>
>For some variant definition of "nobody on-list" with which I'm
>not familiar.
I keep forgetting you're here. :)