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- changed some infinitives to participles
- changed description of masak from 'first user' to 'frenetic'
- 'chromatic' with a small 'C' -- trumps beginning of sentence by me
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We want a Perl 6 book. We want it badly enough to write it ourself. So that's
what we do: write one.
what we're doing: writing one.

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.
(frenetic Rakudo user, 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.

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
Expand All @@ -15,20 +15,20 @@ that task we leave to Larry Wall and Damian Conway.

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
released, that is April or May 2010. chromatic and Allison Randal have kindly
offered to published it via Onyx Neon Press.

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

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

* Multi dispatch
* Classes and Object
* Regexes
* Grammars

Interested? Check out the git repository at http://github.com/perl6/book, and
join us in irc://freenode.net#perl6book.
Interested? Check out the git repository at <http://github.com/perl6/book>,
and join us in irc://freenode.net#perl6book.
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<p>We want a Perl 6 book. We want it badly enough to write it ourself. So that's
what we do: write one.</p>
<p>We want a Perl 6 book. We want it badly enough to write it ourself. So
that's what we're doing: writing one.</p>

<p>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.</p>
<p>We, that is Patrick Michaud (architect of the Rakudo Perl compiler),
Jonathan Worthington (prolific contributor to both Rakudo and Parrot), Carl
Mäsak (frenetic Rakudo user, 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.</p>

<p>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
Expand All @@ -15,14 +15,14 @@

<p>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
released, that is April or May 2010. chromatic and Allison Randal have kindly
offered to published it via Onyx Neon Press.</p>

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

<p>Currently there are four chapters under construction, with the intention to
write the more introductory chapters later, when we know what we need to
<p>Currently we have four chapters under construction, and the intention of
writing the more introductory chapters later, when we know what we need to
introduce for the later chapters. So far we have</p>

<ul>
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<p>Interested? Check out
<a href="http://github.com/perl6/book">the git repository</a>, and
join us in irc://freenode.net#perl6book.</p>
join us in <code>irc://freenode.net#perl6book</code>.</p>

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