We had a fun meeting last night. It sounds like a lot of folks want to do some more exploration of additional languages. I kind of like the idea, but I wanted to explore what exactly everyone wants out of that.

While I'm eager to explore a variety of languages, I'd also like to see this continue to be primarily a Perl group. Specifically, a group of Perl users who enjoy exploring a variety of languages. I think people who like Perl have something that other programmers don't. It's a certain way of thinking, and a certain kind of passion. It's the reason there are both Perl groups and Perl conferences all across the world, there's nothing like it for any other language development community.

It sounds like this is what the other guys are interested in as well, which is wonderful. In a few months (who has time for this stuff), I'd like to do some exploration of O'Caml. It seems that programs written in it do really well in many of the programming contests out there. That made be curious about O'Caml, and the people that use it.