one more data point from a person who lived, travelled and used computers
in a few countries (Romania, France, Germany, Belgium, UK, Canada, US,
Holland, Italy). paraphrasing:
rule 1: if it's not on my keyboard, it doesn't exist;
rune 2: if it's not on everybody's keyboard, it doesn't exist.
lon
> Then if they read through the initial stuff and _still_ like Perl :-)
> they'll go out and buy a book or two on the subject, which they will
> study. Once they get familiar with the language, they'll go buy
> another few more specialized books, according to their interest.
I wouldn't bank too m
> If we wrote a GUI library in parrot, a sort of Tkinter, and our
> widgets compiled down to parrot then we would have a consistent GUI
> library where widgets could be shared across languages and across
> platforms. Unlike the present situation where Tk widgets from Perl
> have to be rewritten f
