* Jonadab the Unsightly One ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [30 Jun 2003 12:37]:
[...]
> The feature I'm most looking forward to in Perl6 is the improved
> object model. One of my first languages was Inform [...], so I got
> spoiled early in terms of what objects are supposed to be like.
Not the only one. A
"Miko O Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - I'm looking forward to more Pure Perl modules. I frankly admit
> that I don't like coding in C. Every time I download a module that
> has compiled C code I feel like I'm stuck in some place where I want
> to play baseball and everybody else wants
This was a few days ago, but I just noticed Tim Bunce's comment about
the way other languages do it and thought of the way it is in another
language I know (one that a lot of people don't know), so I'm chiming
in briefly...
Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How about a pre- or user-
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 05:17:44 -0400, Gyan Kapur wrote
>
> reconstituted cheeseburger
/me wonders if pitching Perl6 as a "reconstituted cheeseburger" is going to
sell it to the world. :-)
-Miko
Miko O'Sullivan
Programmer Analyst
Rescue Mission of Roanoke
Simon Cozens writes:
> I've been using an 85%-complete Perl 6 in production for the past five
> years. It's called Perl 5. ;)
Unfortunately, although Perl 5 may be 85% of Perl 6, it is the 85% that has
been sliced up so many times that it's now looking like a sloppy Joe. The
trick with perl 6 is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Scott Duff) writes:
> My only dream is that by this time next year we have a fully-
> functional-people-can-use-it-in-production Perl6. It doesn't even
> have to be 100% complete; I think just 85% would be enough if it were
> the right 85%.
I've been using an 85%-compl
