Re: Fwd: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-29 Thread Steffen Schwigon
"Michael Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm glad you made that point. If I understand your statement, it's a > common "gain" cited by Perl 6 (actually Parrot) advocates: you can mix > languages. But a point I was trying to make was that while this is fun > for us developers, managers hate i

Fwd: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-26 Thread Michael Mathews
Hi Affijn, As I gradually learn how Parrot works, I see that perhaps the idea of decompiling byte-code into language ___ is only a pipe-dream. But the point still remains--using the fact that one *could* mix languages X, Y, and P into your company's source tree is a very weak argument for Parrot/

Fwd: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
Hi Steffen, I'm glad you made that point. If I understand your statement, it's a common "gain" cited by Perl 6 (actually Parrot) advocates: you can mix languages. But a point I was trying to make was that while this is fun for us developers, managers hate it, with very good reason. Having one cru