From: Piers Cawley <pdcawley@...>
Date: 2001-11-03T00:00:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24166] Re: Perl 6 and Ruby

"Conrad Schneiker" <schneiker@jump.net> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> FYI--a couple of interesting mentions of Ruby.
> 
> "Perl 6 : Not Just For Damians" (pages 3 and 4)
> 
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/23/damians.html?page=3
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/23/damians.html?page=4
> 
> ==== begin quote ====
> (One of the things that I really like about Ruby is its heady mix of
> functional style higher order functions and hard core object orientation. It
> looks like Perl's getting this too.)
> [...]
> If Parrot [the Perl6 VM] fulfils its early promise, we may well see Perl
> users taking advantages of extensions written in Ruby, or Python, or
> Smalltalk.
> ==== end quote ====

Tee hee. I'm getting everywhere aren't I?

-- 
Piers

   "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
    possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
         -- Jane Austen?