I keep being late for things. Here are my notes on the second half of Ward Cunningham and Brian Ingham’s FIT talk, and the second half of Damian Conway’s talk on Perl6 (aided by Larry Wall who heckled from the back using a scary “voice of god” microphone). I think I’m beginning to get Perl6, but it still does feel like I’ve stumbled into a shiny white room with bits of Ruby, Objective C and Python smeared up the walls and all of the Perl guys giggling in a corner.
FIT, though, looks very tasty, and social software if ever I saw it. It’s unit testing meets wikis, which means that using it is like renting room in Ward Cunningham’s head. I wonder a little if it doesn’t require a bit too much futzing around in HTML textareas, but that’s easily fixable with a front end.
I did meet up with esr. We didn’t kill each other. It was touch and go for a bit though. Thankfully, it turns out you can block a lot of killer martial arts moves by holding a little baby in front of your face.