I’ve just seen a picture of Marty on the O’Reilly site.

Last night Larry Wall, in his State of the Onion talk, announced the creation of a new project called Ponie - Perl On New Internal Engine. I spent some time yesterday at the XP tutorial chatting about the power of naming and the use of a good metaphor. If we keep using ridiculous sounding names for our projects are people not going to assume that they silly projects?

How do you follow Larry Wall’s State of the Onion talk? Well Guido van Rossum, Shane Caraveo, Monty Widenius, Greg Stein and Theodore Ts’o had to try to do this last night at the States of the Union presentation. I didn’t hear them all as after Larry’s well constructed talk I wasn’t able to sit through the rest of them!