From: Bryan Murphy <bryan@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T09:59:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

Andrew Hunt wrote:

>But this is all beside the point -- Larry's off the mark
>in suggesting that an inconsistency is preferable for any reason. I
>contend that that attitude is just plain wrong.  It's better to
>be consistent -- even if that consistency is towards something
>new and unfamiliar -- than to introduce exceptional cases that
>the user (at any level) has to carry around.
>  
>
And you know what, in many ways consistency is exactly what Larry is 
doing.  If you've been
following the Apocalypses, you should have noticed by now how hard he is 
working towards
cleaning up the syntax of  Perl operators and Regex's.  Making them 
"more consistent", or
something to that effect.

So, in some ways Larry just said you shouldn't necessarily strive to do 
exactly what he is
doing!  You have to forgive him though, he's a busy man and has a lot on 
his plate.  
Everybody slips up once in awhile, some just get more publicity when 
they do.

Whatever the case may be, Perl 6 is going  to be on interesting beasty, 
regardless of what
Larry says about Ruby.

Bryan