From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T05:45:50+09:00
Subject: Re: A Repeat: New Language After Ruby?

At 5:36 AM +0900 8/23/02, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>Learning a language like Eiffel, Scheme, ocaml, or Objective C, all 
>of which I find better than mainstream languages like Java and C++, 
>means often finding yourself isolated.

This is one of the driving forces behind Parrot's getting ports of 
some of the more obscure (relatively) languages. It'd be nice to use 
perl/python/ruby/scheme/forth and have access to the swing libraries 
for GUI work.
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                                         Dan

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