This might not belong in meditations, but I think one of the goals of all perlmonks is to follow our language and to try to learn from all sources. Now that perl is being completly rewritten from the ground up, I wanted to remind all aspiring saints that the chance to be "in on the action" and to watch the it all live and uncensored is happening right now, and shouldn't be missed.

I would heartily recommend (to the monks who haven't yet checked it out) thinking about subscribing to some of the perl6 mailing lists. Even if one can't contribute much, just absorbing the day to day correspondence of some of perl's best is enlightening.

A warning though, the lists are VERY high traffic right now, and much of the content is very heady stuff. I myself don't follow much of the Perl6 Internal's mailing list, as I don't yet have the background to know what's really going on there. On the other hand, over in Perl6 Language Changes I have found gem after gem, often directly from Larry, Tom Christiansen. I've learned a lot just reading their posts on debates on multiline comments, whether perl is strong typed or not etc.

A full list of available mailing lists and archives is here.

For those who don't want to be drowned in mail, reading the RFC's is also a great learning tool.

In reply to Watching Perl6 by Melvin

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