From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-03-26T03:16:11+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] perl6 logo

Humorous, sure.

Of course, there is one thing even Perl5 does that Ruby doesn't -- it 
seems to be much more capable of arbitrary syntax manipulation:

http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/Filter-Simple-0.84/lib/Filter/Simple.pm
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Lingua-Pirate-Perl/lib/Acme/Lingua/Pirate/Perl.pm

Whether this is a good thing or not is open to debate. Ruby DSLs, as 
flexible as they are, still pretty much look like Ruby. That's a 
valuable asset -- it means once I have a good understanding of how Ruby 
syntax works, a DSL isn't likely to completely surprise me, whereas with 
Perl, my source could be run through an arbitrary regular expression.

But it is a limitation, and to duplicate it in Ruby requires games like 
eval(some_filter(File.read('foo.rb')))

Greg Donald wrote:
> I thought some of you might find this humorous.
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> This is my entry into the Perl6 logo contest:
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> http://static.destiney.com/perl6_logo.png
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