general rant over older days

2008-08-29 Thread Bob Rogers
From: "Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:04:44 +0200 >> Reini Urban wrote: >>> >>> I hope you know that this #+() syntax is the only existing syntax. >>> It is widely used since about 20 years. >>> The rest is something new we came up with. As the tok

Re: general rant over older days

2008-08-29 Thread Allison Randal
Reini Urban wrote: And I'm tempted to add: Actually even the 1984 version of lisps are still technically and syntax-wise far advanced over the perl and parrot state of today. I see not much of a progress. Philosophically, I agree. In my usual Parrot architecture talk there's a slide right at

Re: general rant over older days

2008-08-29 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/29 chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 29 August 2008 10:04:44 Reini Urban wrote: >> perl5 even lost undump around that time and the perl compiler was axed last >> year. > > Economic realities often trump idealism. I'd like to see a working Perl 5 > compiler suite as well, but I don'

Re: general rant over older days

2008-08-29 Thread chromatic
On Friday 29 August 2008 10:04:44 Reini Urban wrote: > perl5 even lost undump around that time and the perl compiler was axed last > year. Economic realities often trump idealism. I'd like to see a working Perl 5 compiler suite as well, but I don't have the time to do it, and no one seems to

general rant over older days

2008-08-29 Thread Reini Urban
2008/8/29 Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Reini Urban wrote: >>> >>> I hope you know that this #+() syntax is the only existing syntax. >>> It is widely used since about 20 years. >>> The rest is something new we came