Under Construction (Of Course)
This is a brand-new page for a brand-new project.
Topaz
is a project with the goal of re-implementing the guts of Perl
while retaining the Perl language essentially unchanged.
Right now, Topaz is just a collection of interesting C++ classes and
test harnesses for them.
Curious? Feel free to grab a snapshot of the
current development sources.
Participation
I'm the only person coding right now, but you can change that!
Contribute something! Please!
You may also wish to join the perl6-porters mailing list.
To do so, send mail containing the line ``subscribe perl6-porters'' to
majordomo@perl.org.
It's possible that this project will produce the next official
generation of Perl, that is, Perl 6. I certainly hope it will! And
Larry Wall, master of all things Perl, has approved this idea -- in
principle.
However, until Larry anoints Topaz with Perl Oil, it's not
appropriate to call it Perl Anything. And Larry's final blessing
depends on Topaz being
- done (enough) and
- good (enough).
Thus, for now, we code under another name.
Besides, on the off chance that Topaz doesn't turn out to be
the greatest thing since regular expressions, I don't want it to taint
the good name of whatever does become Perl 6.
Me
I'm Chip Salzenberg, variously known on the net as
<chip@pobox.com>,
<chip@valinux.com>,
<chip@perlsupport.com>,
and of course <chip@users.sourceforge.net>.
Other addresses I've used in the past include
<chip@perl.org>,
<chip@perl.com>, and
<chip@atlantic.net>.
If you'd like to verify my identity, you could use
my PGP public key.