From 9a2308463b5d04b6f887a27d14cbdea39c51f877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:00:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [docs] HTML version of release announce --- docs/announce/2009-10.html | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2009-10.html diff --git a/docs/announce/2009-10.html b/docs/announce/2009-10.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31ef9f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2009-10.html @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +

We want a Perl 6 book. We want it badly enough to write it ourself. So that's +what we do: write one.

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We, that is Patrick Michaud (architect of the Rakudo Perl compiler), Jonathan +Worthington (prolific contributor to both Rakudo and Parrot), Carl Mäsak +(probably the first Rakudo user ever, and our number one bug finder) and +Moritz Lenz (keeper of the Perl 6 test suite, and Perl 6 user and blogger). We +are also open to contribution from others - already Jonathan Scott Duff has +written an initial preface for us.

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We don't have a name yet for our book. We want to cover the basics of Perl 6, +enough to get your feet wet, and enough to make you want to use it. We want it +to be based on useful examples. It is not going to be the definitive book, +that task we leave to Larry Wall and Damian Conway.

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Our vision is to present primarily the subset of Perl 6 that Rakudo +understands, and have printed copies available by the time Rakudo Star is +released, that is April or May 2010. Chromatic and Allison Randal have kindly +offered to published it via Onyx Neon Press.

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Until then, monthly releases will be published under a Creative Commons license +(noncommercial, attribution, share-alike).

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Currently there are four chapters under construction, with the intention to +write the more introductory chapters later, when we know what we need to +introduce for the later chapters. So far we have

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Interested? Check out +the git repository, and +join us in irc://freenode.net#perl6book.