Simon writes "Gnat, Guido (Yes, the snakey guy) and myself are trying to put together a way for Perl, Python and Tcl implementors to discuss matters of mutual interest. Wondering what the other languages are doing about Unicode, threads, numeric conversion or many of the other issues we struggle with in Perl 5 and Perl 6 development? I've set up the language-dev list, which intends to be a forum for the exchange of programming language implementation details."