This is the homepage of Bob Wilkinson. It is running under Debian GNU/Linux and hosted on a Sheeva Plug

I read the parrot and Perl 6 mailing lists. I have read the documentation a few times and have contributed patches. I have also rewritten some of the test programs - which were written in Perl 5 - in PIR. The project should be self hosting, and I learn better by doing.

I watched the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs videos earlier this year.

A long time ago (around 2000-2001) I wrote a Perl interface to a C program for converting music on vinyl records to digital formats..

And for inspiration we usually have Mr Perry and On The Wire to listen to.

I do like CSS but I have limited (read - zero) artistic ability, but one day I may try. Cello has just written a little bit of CSS for me to highlight the links.

I just lost the ability to boot a laptop when I installed an OS on to an SD card. I did manage to rescue it :-)

I have written a simple tutorial showing how to call C code from Perl code.

I have been looking at Perl Disassemblers - some benchmarks comparing performance are here

I have recently been written Perl interfaces to some C disassemblers :

X86::Disasm X86::Distorm64 X86::Udis86