Vijay Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I always expected Perl to be leading the way, *the* language that broke
> new ground..."where only camels dared to tread..."
Er... that strikes me as a strange expectation. I can't think of much in
Perl that hasn't appeared elsewhere earlier. Perl make
> Perl is looking a bit shaky at the moment.
Yeah. I think I understand what you mean by "shaky".
I always expected Perl to be leading the way, *the* language
that broke new ground..."where only camels dared to tread..."
Now we find that Perl6 is just huffin' and puffin' its way
to *catch up*
> -Original Message-
> From: Vijay Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 10:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Python...
>
>
>
> Python? Didn't know you were so into tuples...
>
> I thought your head would be turned by Ruby ;-)
It is
Anyone seen this? It has a little of the flavour of what we're
going to do.
http://xlang.sourceforge.net/
Nat
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 10:48:11PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Oh, hrm. I wonder if I could use the functions from the Ruby runtime
> > as custom ops.
>
> You are a very bad man. Go to it.
I would do, but I'm getting segfaults when I reimplement op.c in Perl.
Unfortunately, I'm not joking.
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Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Apart from the minor issue of Leon not having ported all the runtime
> > libraries (in annoying C) yet.
>
> Because I'm hacking at the bytecode level, I can replace the relevant
> subrout
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Apart from the minor issue of Leon not having ported all the runtime
> libraries (in annoying C) yet.
Because I'm hacking at the bytecode level, I can replace the relevant
subroutine calls to Perl builtins.
Oh, hrm. I wonder if I co
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:02:03AM +, Vijay Singh wrote:
> > I thought your head would be turned by Ruby ;-)
> >
> > BTW - There's a Ruby "Inline::Perl" module in alpha testing
> > now...this will be a nice complement to the "Inline::Python"
> > mod
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:02:03AM +, Vijay Singh wrote:
> I thought your head would be turned by Ruby ;-)
>
> BTW - There's a Ruby "Inline::Perl" module in alpha
> testing now...this will be a nice complement to the
> "Inline::Python" module already available...
And today I put the finishin
