From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T07:26:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Performance

Adrian Howard ha scritto:
> 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.

first, let me state that I do have great hopes for parrot, I think perl6 
has some very interesting things[1] and pugs is massively cool.

But I think Lothar is right: IMVHO perl6 could have been definitely more 
simple, withouth needing ~150 operators[2], special variables like 
$?CLASS, ::?CLASS or ::*::Main[3], differentiating multi/method/sub etc



[1] to be fair, I do love multimethods and rules. Real love.
[2] http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.pdf
[3] http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/quickref/namespace