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While in Tokyo we attended the Lightweight Language Future conference. Talks were given by Larry Wall, the inventor of Perl, and Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the inventor of Ruby. Larry's talk on Perl 6 was very interesting. I didn't realize Perl 6 was so flexible as to almost be a meta-language. I've never been a fan of Perl but I have to admit, Perl 6 has some really nice features. Larry cover…