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needed a way of representing the state of a poker game, so I wrote
L<Games::Poker::TexasHold'em> to do that. And also because it was a
fantastic abuse of the C<'> package separator.

Oh, and another of my early modules that refused to die was
L<Oxford::Calendar>, which converts between the academic calendar and
the rest of the world's. It all counts, you know.

=head2 The Future

I've had mixed feelings on Perl 6, starting with my very public
nightmare at its announcement in 1999, (Hey, I'd just written a book on
Perl 5 internals, and now they're telling me it's obsolete.) and then my
very public repentance in 2000, at which point I was very excited about
the whole thing. So much so, that I produced vast numbers of design
documents for the language, most of which now ignored, but that's OK,
and set to work helping Dan design the core of the interpreter too. In
fact, I somehow managed to do so much work on it that, after a hacking
session together at O'Reilly in Boston in 2001, Dan let me be the
release pumpking of L<parrot>, a job I did until life got busy in 2002.
I'm extremely happy to have been involved in that, and hope I didn't
start the project off on too much of a bad footing. It looks to be doing
fine now, at least.