From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-04-02T11:46:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [RURL] Larry Wall proclaims Ruby to be Perl 6

Hi,

In message "[RURL] Larry Wall proclaims Ruby to be Perl 6"
    on 02/04/02, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:

|Another shocking development today... Larry says: "I picked up this 
|Programming Ruby book over at Barnes and Noble the other day. As I read 
|through it I thought "Hey, This is what Perl 6 should be!" and I realized 
|that we could save ourselves a lot of time by copying the Ruby source over 
|into the Perl 6 CVS repository. So now that we have Perl 6 done, our next 
|immediate task is to convert all of the modules in CPAN to Ruby, err, I 
|mean Perl 6." 

;-)

The truth is I personally gave him a copy of the pickaxe.

							matz.