From: Mark Sparshatt <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-04-17T19:38:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Objects in perl6 (rubyish :)

gabriele renzi wrote:

>Hi gurus and nubys,
>
>You may be interested in reading Larry Wall's Apocalypse 12, 
>found here:
>http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html
>
>What can I say, what this recall to you?
>
>$d= Dog.new() 
>:)
>
>  
>
After reading it my first thought was, My head hurts

My second thought was that a lot of it is too clever by half.

I guess we'll have to wait for the Exegesis in order to see how these 
features are to be used, but at the moment Ruby's object system seems 
better, becuase it's a lot simpler.