Re: Take it outside, please

2001-02-18 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:11:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't care who's trolling who, or who's not trolling who. I don't > want to hear Yet Another > My-Language-Is-Cleaner-Than-Perl-And-Will-Beat-The-Pants-Off-It > argument. > > Get this off perl6-*. Take it to clpm or your loc

Re: Turning Japanese (was Re: It's Funny. Laugh.)

2001-02-18 Thread yaphet jones
subarashii! < eigo no kotoba = "wonderful!" > >"Coding in Ruby" to the tune of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors > with endless apologies to everyone involved. creativity! at last! actually, i'm all smiles (^_^) >I've got your tarball, I've got your tarball >I'm milling over installing it myse

Sane language advocacy (was Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope)

2001-02-18 Thread schwern
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:50:36AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > That doesn't mean that davocates for either side don't have anything > > interesting to say. > > Sure. However, when it's being presented in the fashion that it's being > presented in this thread, it hits my mental filters and is

Turning Japanese (was Re: It's Funny. Laugh.)

2001-02-18 Thread schwern
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 03:22:47PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 11:25 AM 2/18/2001 +, David Grove wrote: > >Did Larry ever say WHY he was learning Japanese? > > Anime, I think. Which strikes me as a perfectly reasonable reason to learn > Japanese. (It's the one I use... :) "Coding in Ruby

Re: HELP: Trying to locate information about Perl 6 Language

2001-02-18 Thread Nathan Torkington
Espen Harlinn writes: > I'm trying to locate information about the Perl 6 Language, i.e. what > changes are proposed to the Perl language and so on. > Can anyone point me in the right direction ??? In case anyone else is wondering: http://dev.perl.org/ Nat

HELP: Trying to locate information about Perl 6 Language

2001-02-18 Thread Espen Harlinn
Hi all, I'm trying to locate information about the Perl 6 Language, i.e. what changes are proposed to the Perl language and so on. Can anyone point me in the right direction ??? Espen Harlinn Senior Engineer, Software Seamos AS - mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: It's Funny. Laugh. (was Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope)

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:25 AM 2/18/2001 +, David Grove wrote: >Did Larry ever say WHY he was learning Japanese? Of course, as a linguist >myself, I realize that there doesn't have to BE a reason, but I figure it >might have something to do with either unicode or hiroshiman monkery. ;-) Anime, I think. Which st

Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That doesn't mean that davocates for either side don't have anything > interesting to say. For starters, it's usually dissatisfaction with > certain aspects of some languages that causes the birth of yet another > new language, such as PHP (which is more

Re: It's Funny. Laugh. (was Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope)

2001-02-18 Thread David Grove
> [subject]: "It's funny. Laugh." I know. I was having fun. We haven't had a lurktrollmuffin in here before and it was a good diversion from the drollery of waiting... 'Sides, I happen to _like_ defending Perl from nonsensicals, especially particularly abusive ones. Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTEC

Take it outside, please

2001-02-18 Thread schwern
I don't care who's trolling who, or who's not trolling who. I don't want to hear Yet Another My-Language-Is-Cleaner-Than-Perl-And-Will-Beat-The-Pants-Off-It argument. Get this off perl6-*. Take it to clpm or your local NY.pm meeting. Its all been said.

Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-18 Thread Peter Scott
At 12:12 PM 2/18/2001 +0100, Bart Lateur wrote: >On 17 Feb 2001 20:53:51 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >Could > >people please take the advocacy traffic elsewhere where it isn't noise? > >Advocacy is noise everywhere. Not on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=advocacy)

It's Funny. Laugh. (was Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope)

2001-02-18 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:01:55AM -0800, yaphet jones wrote: > gentlemen - gomen nasai! dou itashimashite. I have to be honest, it's not very often I'm called a dimwit. Certainly not twice. But there is a deeper problem! People appear to be losing their sense of satire; this is terrible! Soon

Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-18 Thread Bart Lateur
On 17 Feb 2001 20:53:51 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >Could >people please take the advocacy traffic elsewhere where it isn't noise? Advocacy is noise everywhere. That doesn't mean that davocates for either side don't have anything interesting to say. For starters, it's usually dissatisfaction wi

Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-18 Thread yaphet jones
gentlemen - gomen nasai! you have my sincere apologies for staying on p6-language so long. i've went and woke david g. up, whose prescription has *obviously* run out. kindly let me know when he's gone back to sleep. (-_-) zzz ja ne! -- yaphet ...python? ...win32? ...really? --

Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-18 Thread David Grove
yaphet jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Feeding the troll: > > careful with the troll talk: remember, your god's favorite book > is the "lord of the rings"...chock full of trolls...and hobbits, too! > > >> => example 2: ruby > >> => now more popular than python in its native japan

Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-18 Thread David Grove
yaphet jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is completely false when applied to real programming languages. Please disclose what language you represent. > => example 1: php > => relatively easy to learn > . retains basic perl syntax > . less cryptic (but more verbose) >

Re: The binding of "my" (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-18 Thread David Grove
Nick, make a decision. As for myself, I won't sit back and watch this. yaphet jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > despite all "cyber" appearances to the contrary, i'm one of you - but who? I've been looking back through my archives trying to figure out who you are. You are certainly not someon