From: Matthew Diephouse <fokke_wulf@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T07:34:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [RURL] Larry Wall proclaims Ruby to be Perl 6

Phil Tomson wrote:
> As reported in the Ruby Weekly News:
> http://www.rubygarden.org/rurl/html/index.html
> 
> 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." 
> 

St. Wall has indeed looked at Ruby and found some ideas he likes for 
Perl 6. IMHO, both languages are beautiful, though in different ways, 
and I can't wait for Perl 6.