From: Adrian Howard <adrianh@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T01:56:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance

On 12 Aug 2005, at 17:36, Lothar Scholz wrote:
[snip]
> AH> -    Perl 6 now! Many  useful things that Perl 5 lacks and that  
> Perl
> AH> 6 will give you like a decent built in OO system, classes as  
> proper
> AH> objects, coroutines, simple block passing, etc. Ruby does now.
>
> Yes thats also going to piss me off. I thought they got a few paid
> full time worker on the language (at least one or two from
> activestate). But i see almost no progress in Perl 6.

I do. Parrot is an interesting platform for dynamic languages that's  
just getting to a reasonable state, and Pugs is just /storming/  
along. You can play with large chunks of Perl 6 now.

Cheers,

Adrian