From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2009-03-26T04:22:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] perl6 logo

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i don't think Perl6 needs any protection,
as much as Ruby doesn't also need any.
Different languages, different communities, different perspectives...

Few things to note in its favor though:
-the redesign is highly influenced by Ruby
-it already has more than one implementations
-one of its implementation, the Pugs, has a great deal more thoughts about
threading than both Ruby and Python
-one other implementation, Rakudo, is part of an initial push on the rosetta
stone multi-language Parrot VM, which if it turns right could also have a
lot of implication for Rubyists.

I find language war is no fun game at all,
collaboration always wins in the end

L-P

2009/3/25 David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>

> 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/%7Esmueller/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.
>>
>> This is my entry into the Perl6 logo contest:
>>
>> http://static.destiney.com/perl6_logo.png
>>
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