From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-04-02T12:14:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [RURL] Larry Wall proclaims Ruby to be Perl 6

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 21:46, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 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.

Look, I know Perl ain't pretty, but that's a bit harsh, isn't it?

.. *oh*, you meant the book.  My bad.  ^,^

> 
> 							matz.