From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-06-01T19:46:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby vs perl6

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 07:31:21PM +0900, Adrian Howard wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2007, at 10:14, Chad Perrin wrote:
> [snip]
> >Alas, I don't know quite enough about Perl 6 to be able to make a
> >credible comparison, but yours sounds believable, so I'll go with  
> >that.
> [snip]
> 
> I said something vaguely similar in my "Perl Eye for the Ruby Guy"  
> talk at YAPC::Eu last year and Larry didn't jump down my throat (not  
> that he would coz he's a nice person :-) so I think it's vaguely  
> sane. Not that I've had the time to keep up with the latest Perl 6  
> changes.

Good to know!  Thanks.


> 
> Yeah - the role/trait stuff does look nice. My poor brain can't copy  
> with the Synopsis docs at the moment though. I'm waiting for somebody  
> to write something a little more pedagogical.

It looks more than just nice, to me -- it looks downright yummy.  I love
learning new, innovative ways to do things.


> >
> >Why limit yourself to one language?
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Unless it's Lisp :-)

There are those who might claim that, to the extent they're worth
learning, they're *all* Lisp.  I'm not one of them, but I do see where
they get that idea.

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