Larry Wall wrote:
Of course, there are other words that are somewhat synonymous with
"class", Unfortunately "sort" is already hosed. Maybe "kind".
Then evolutionists could make jokes about the K(T) boundary, and
creationists could make jokes about "reproducing after their kind".
Some of us could make either kind of joke. But perhaps it wouldn't
be kind.
Which (sort of) takes us back to TSa's (non)sign-off note from 10/5,
wherein he suggested:
> I've always taken the 'what type of expression' approach to
> programming languages and thus have an affinity to type systems and
> type theory.
> With 'type' in general and 'data type' in particular beeing too
> misleading or used in too many different meanings in other programming
> languages I propose to coin the notion of 'kind' which has the nice
> double meaning of nice and sort. And as such gives the nice pun
>
> Perl 6, the kind language
>
> with the two "meanings"
>
> Perl 6, a kind of language
> , the language of kind(ness)
I don't know if this is a good sign or a bad one, but the jokes started
before you even made the suggestion! :)
/au
