From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T05:10:47+09:00
Subject: Re: State of the Onion

Martin DeMello wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:05 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46724-1.html
>>> Just thought you'd like to know. ;)
>>
>> So Larry Wall has reinvented Lisp without Lisp's minimalist elegance?
>> Dylan did it first, but at least it had the decency to call itself a
>> Lisp dialect.
>>
>> Greenspun was proven right.  Again.
> 
> I don't understand this hostility to perl6, which (discounting its
> current lack of completion) looks like a very exciting language. Sure,
> lisp lets you have arbitrary reader macros, but it looks like perl6
> will make syntactic extension a lot more accessible than any of the
> lisp dialects I've seen. Also, while lisp can be twisted into
> arbitrary syntaxes, it goes against the grain of the language and the
> culture. I'd like to see it done right (camlp4 and nemerle are two
> interesting experiments in that direction, but perl6 promises to be
> better than either of them)

I'm excited about Perl 6 in the same way I'm excited about Duke Nukem 
Forever. What annoys me about Perl 6 is that it's something different 
every month, which I believe has contributed to its long delay. At this 
point I have no doubt that some new language doo-dad will come along in 
the next year and result in further changes to Perl 6. It's trying to be 
the everylanguage.

- Charlie