Larry Wall: Apocalypse Two  Editor's Note: this Apocalypse is
out of date and remains here for histor ic reasons. See Syn
opsis 02 for the latest information.  Perl 6 Apocalypse  The
rest of the "Apocalypse" series is available on Larry Wall's
author page.  Table Of Contents  Larry Wall will give his annual
entertaining talk on the state of the Perl world, covering both
Perl 5 and Perl 6 at this Year's Open Source Convention. Don't
miss this rare opportunity to hear the creator of Perl, patch,
and run share his insights.  Here's Apocalypse 2, meant to be
read in conjunction with Chapter 2 of the Camel Book. The basic
assumption is that if Chapter 2 talks about something that I
don't discuss here, it doesn't change in Perl 6. (Of course, it
could always just be an oversight. One might say that people who
oversee things have a gift of oversight.)  Before I go further,
I would like to thank all the victims, er, participants in the
RFC process. (I beg special forgiveness from those whose brains
I haven't been abl