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No. You get ponie here:
http://opensource.fotango.com/software/ponie/

Here is a copy of the photo, as the site is S L O W at the moment

That's Fotango, who deserve a huge thanks from everyone who cares about Perl 6.

David Cantrell > Acme-Pony-1.1.2 > Acme::Pony
Module Version: 1.1.2 Source

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NAME
Acme::Pony - An encoding scheme for Silly People

SYNOPSIS
use Acme::Pony;

print "Hello world";

DESCRIPTION
The first time you run a program under use Acme::Pony, the module removes all that nasty text stuff from your source file, turning it into a lovely ASCII-art rendition of a pony. In the spirit of other london.pm modules, the ASCII-art will consist entirely of the characters matching /[buffy]+/i, thus fulfilling Greg, Leon and Dave's fantasy of seeing Buffy riding a Pony.

DIAGNOSTICS

Can't pony '%s'
Acme::Pony couldn't access the source file for modification.

Can't unpony '%s'
Acme::Pony couldn't access the source file for execution.

AUTHOR
David Cantrell

This is based on Leon Brocard's 'Buffy' module and inspired by Damian Conway's brief talk on his Bleach module.

Leon contributed the code for scaling a vector Pony and filling it, replacing the bitmap Pony from the previous versions.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001, David Cantrell. The Artistic Licence applies.

I don't think I need to mention that Leon Brocard works for Fotango, and that Fotango owns up to adding their share of silly libraries to CPAN.

And now they've gotten to Larry Wall himself.... :-)

So, is there a URL for the State of the Onion talk this year then?

David Cantrell > Acme-Pony-1.1.2 > Acme::Pony
Module Version: 1.1.2 Source

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
DIAGNOSTICS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

NAME
Acme::Pony - An encoding scheme for Silly People

SYNOPSIS
use Acme::Pony;

print "Hello world";

DESCRIPTION
The first time you run a program under use Acme::Pony, the module removes all that nasty text stuff from your source file, turning it into a lovely ASCII-art rendition of a pony. In the spirit of other london.pm modules, the ASCII-art will consist entirely of the characters matching /[buffy]+/i, thus fulfilling Greg, Leon and Dave's fantasy of seeing Buffy riding a Pony.

DIAGNOSTICS

Can't pony '%s'
Acme::Pony couldn't access the source file for modification.

Can't unpony '%s'
Acme::Pony couldn't access the source file for execution.

AUTHOR
David Cantrell

This is based on Leon Brocard's 'Buffy' module and inspired by Damian Conway's brief talk on his Bleach module.

Leon contributed the code for scaling a vector Pony and filling it, replacing the bitmap Pony from the previous versions.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2001, David Cantrell. The Artistic Licence applies.

I don't think I need to mention that Leon Brocard works for Fotango, and that Fotango owns up to adding their share of silly libraries to CPAN.

And now they've gotten to Larry Wall himself.... :-)

So, is there a URL for the State of the Onion talk this year then?

Secondly, what's wrong with SOAP? SOAP::Lite works really well and is darn simple to use. Is it too slow? What's your main critisms of it? Other object Persistance frameworks exist (which are in turn used to do distributed transferal of objects. One I'm currently looking at is Pixie which attempts to semitransparently seralise data structures and objects to and from memory and a database (i.e. it's an OODB) (it essentailly works the same way Java does - it does most of it nativly but you can put hooks in if you want)

Do you really think all of this should be in the core? What is core anyway? Since it's often as simple as "perl -MCPAN -e 'install module::name'", how much do you want to force to be shipped with every single copy of perl?