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I was amused to see this distillation of the origins of a certain computer language on one of its mailing lists:

Once upon a long time ago, Jon Orwant threw coffee cups and swore. And Perl 6 was born.

It's even funnier because it's basically true, though if you ask him about it Jon will politely insist that it was just the one coffee cup, really.

I wish I could tell you more about what was happening with Perl 6, though. Apparently something interesting has been afoot via this "PUGS" thing, but I have zero reason to actually comprehend it at this time. I think that

daerr groks it, so I can just treat him as an external memory cache and access him when I need to. (So far he's tried to explain it to me my shoving a laptop screen full of alien syntax in front of my face at 2 a.m. during a recent visit to the sleep-inducing underground offices in WTVL. The obvious coolness and elegance of it failed to instantly flash-absorb into my brain. Maybe next time!)