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to write some robots to play on the internet poker servers;
L<Games::Poker::HandEvaluator> was the first product there, with the
hard work done by a GNU library, and L<Games::Poker::OPP> being the
interface to the network protocol. The comments to that module contain a
large number of Prisoner references, for no apparent reason. C<OPP>
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,