Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-28 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 05:34:18AM +0530, Siddhant Saraf wrote: > Rakud[o] is not _the_ reference implementation of Perl 6. Actually, there is > no reference implementation for Perl 6. There never will be. Whoever wants > to make a perl6 implementation is free to do so. Just follow the spec and > y

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-28 Thread Parrot Raiser
> There are a lot of programmers who know several programming languages already, > and who don't want to read a whole page on how to print 'Hello World', 5 > pages on > if-statements and while-loops and another 10 pages explaining lists and > iteration. However experienced a programmer may be,

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-28 Thread B. Estrade
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 03:38:48PM +0800, Xiao Yafeng wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 08:44:30AM -0500, B. Estrade wrote: > > > > > > Realistically, that's not going to happen. The internals of the Perl 5 > > interpreter are not flexib

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-28 Thread Xiao Yafeng
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 08:44:30AM -0500, B. Estrade wrote: > > > Realistically, that's not going to happen. The internals of the Perl 5 > interpreter are not flexible enough to implement a lot of the features > that > Perl 6 has that Perl