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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
A Parallel for Perl 6

Perl 6 is still sufficiently far ahead for me to need to know the general direction in which it's headed, so that its future use can be planned for, but it's too early to be actually trying to do any more with it in the general training arena. I've been pointed (thank you, Caitlinn) to an article by Teodor Zlatanov which talks about a building that's being built but isn't ready for occupation yet and I like the parallel. In his article, 'Ted' describes how you see a lot of activity initially on a building site as foundations are put in place, and then there's a period where little appears to be happening and there's just a lot of rusty steelwork to be seen from the outside. Yet it all comes together, somewhat quickly in the end.

One of the other great beauties of Perl (and Perl 6 too) is that it's designed to be usable at many levels. In other words, for an easy job it's easy to use and you don't need to get into the intricacies, but if you want to, you can get in there. Most jobs are easy, it turns out, so a lot of the RecDescent stuff mentioned in the article is, and will remain, a niche interest for the few while the majority of us get on with good basic coding.
(written 2004-11-09, updated 2006-06-05)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
P256 - Perl 6 Look Ahead
  [89] When will Perl 6 be available - (2004-10-15)
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [582] DWIM and AWWO - (2006-01-30)
  [995] Ruby's case - no break - (2006-12-17)
  [1215] An update on Perl - where is it going? - (2007-06-03)
  [1417] What software version do we teach? - (2007-10-31)
  [1721] Perl 6 - When will we have a production release? - (2008-07-26)
  [2559] Moving the product forward - ours, and MySQL, Perl, PHP and Python too - (2010-01-01)
  [2815] switch and case, or given and when in Perl - (2010-06-17)
  [2816] Intelligent Matching in Perl - (2010-06-18)
  [2817] Setting a safety net or fallback value in Perl - (2010-06-19)
  [2967] Multiway branches in Perl - the given and when syntax - (2010-09-22)
  [3077] Perl 6 - significantly nearer, and Rakudo looks very good - (2010-12-02)


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