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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.

I was still interested in how they're going to make the Perl 6 parser
work, (I still am, but don't have enough time to throw at the problem)
and with my linguistic background I've always been interested in writing
parsers in general. So early on I started trying to write a
L<Perl6::Tokener>, which is now unfortunately quite obsolete, with the
intention of writing a parser later on. For most of 2002, my whiteboard
at home was covered with sketches of the Perl 6 grammar. 

Then I found out that the parser is actually going to be dynamic - you
can reconfigure the grammar at runtime. Hey, I thought, that's going to
be fun. At this point, you can't use an ordinary state-table parser like
C<yacc>, as Perl has done so far, because that pre-computes the