RE: What will be the Perl6 code name ?!!

2000-10-19 Thread Frank Tobin
Garrett Goebel, at 18:47 -0500 on Thu, 19 Oct 2000, wrote: > The only acceptable code name other than "Perl6" is "YACN" ;) Given all this chatter, YAP might be better. You get 1 guess for what "P" stands for. (No it's not Python). -- Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

RE: What will be the Perl6 code name ?!!

2000-10-19 Thread Mike Pastore
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Garrett Goebel wrote: > The only acceptable code name other than "Perl6" is "YACN" ;) > What's that? You Actually Cannot Tell? Yes, All the Code is New? Yet Another Crazy Notion? -- Mike Pastore #!Perl Monk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-19 Thread Steve Fink
Larry Wall spoke: > > Here are some from the "bad" directory. (reads from one) ... and they > want us to solve the halting problem. No. That was RFC12, mine. I can't figure out why so many people interpret that RFC as requiring a solution to the halting problem. If anything, it explicitly rec

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-19 Thread Piers Cawley
John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > > But will there be a "meanuntil"? > > Not to mention "modewhile", "medianuntil", etc. generouswhile, generousuntil... -- Piers

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-19 Thread Philip Newton
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Larry Wall wrote: > Simon Cozens writes: > : You're learning Japanese, right? It's gotta be "toriaezu".[1] :) > > Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the > verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like: > > @foo wa kaite ku

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-19 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 01:07 AM 10/19/00 -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote: > You're not the only one. (Though it is on my todo list... :) > > >[And now they're keeping the newbies locked out by doing all > >development work in Japanese.] > > Nah. Only those newbies that d

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-19 Thread Philip Newton
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, J. David Blackstone wrote: > [And now they're keeping the newbies locked out by doing all > development work in Japanese.] Well, we might get lots of developers recruited from the Ruby camp ;) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-19 Thread Philip Newton
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > > Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the > > verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like: > > > > @foo wa kaite kudasai; > > So, > >

Re: Transcription of Larry's talk

2000-10-19 Thread Philip Newton
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > > @foo wa kaite kudasai; > > Surely they only need to go at the end if they're in a Japanese script? > The Latin alphabet transliteration could still sit in front. No, IMO they'd still