From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-11-18T04:25:28+09:00
Subject: [OT] Matz vs Wall - borrowing from each other

Hi all,

Nope, not an attempt at a flame war. Just an interesting article I came
across from Allison Randal's journal.  There's an interesting talk being
given at the 2004 PerlWhirl called "Kongoogo", by Marty Pauley.

Here's the synopsis:

It is well known that Larry Wall stole lots of good bits from other
programming
languages to create and then extend Perl. But Perl's position as the
most eclectic
Programming language has been threatened by Ruby, created by Yukihiro
Matsumoto by stealing all the best bits from Perl.

Larry's responded by stealing all the good bits from Ruby to use in
Perl6, but he
soon realised that this would not be enough. To defeat Ruby, Larry will
use his
impressive linguistic skills to steal from Matz's native language:
Japanese.

This talk starts by examining the existing similarities between Perl5
and Japanese,
then looks at some of the new Perl6 features that Larry stole from
Japanese,
Ruby, and the mind of a crazy Australian. If you want to join the cool
kids at the
front of the Perl crowd, and learn some Japanese, this talk is for you.

Here's the site if anyone is interested:  

http://geekcruises.com/seminar/pw4_seminar.htm#13

Hmmm...maybe someone should "stowaway" on the cruise.  I volunteer
myself. ;)

Regards,

Dan