From: Simon Cozens Date: 2001-07-03T22:09:18+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17185] language-dev Mailing List Hello. I'm Simon Cozens, the editor of perl.com. Recently I had an idea to try and get Perl, Python, Tcl and Ruby implementors collaborating and sharing information. I'd noticed that many languages are struggling with the same problems - Unicode representation, threads, and so on. I've also noticed that in the relevant mailing lists, there are a lot of people with a lot of experience of various platforms and getting various things done. We could all help each other out. The idea behind the language-dev mailing list is to be a forum for discussing implementation issues of languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl. The hope is that discussion of a particular issue can be branched away temporarily to language-dev to see how other languages deal with it, and then brought back "home" with the participants hopefully more enlightened. The reason I wanted to to be a separate list rather than have people scouting on each other's development lists is to reduce clutter and avoid having stupid questions get in the way of people doing serious development. language-dev is at language-dev-subscribe@netthink.co.uk -- Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.