From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-01-04T00:43:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Status of Cardinal (was Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list)

On 1/3/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> Yeah ... fun is definitely a compelling business reason for moving from
> subversion to Darcs.

No, but it's a compelling reason to spend your limited free time
hacking on Pugs rather than any project that might be competing for
your attention. Toss in the productivity boost Haskell gives you and
the future looks pretty bright for Pugs in terms of not drying up and
withering away.

> So -- is there any chance that Perl 6 will become a
> dialect of Haskell rather than a rewrite of Perl?

It's passing Perl 6 tests, so I'd say no :) On the other hand, Haskell
might just about be flexible enough to let it be both (not sure).

> And who has more fun -- Ruby programmers or Haskell programmers?

I enjoyed both, but the last time I looked at Haskell, Ruby was
definitely more in tune with the posixverse, and I didn't have any
real itch that Haskell scratched. Were I a perler I'd be very tempted
by pugs.

martin