From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-04-19T17:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Objects in perl6 (rubyish :)

Grzegorz Chrupa��a wrote:
>>By saying that I should also mention that I never will abandon
>>Ruby for perl6.
> 
> Even if perl6 turns out to be a better, more powerful language (not
> particularly likely but certainly not impossible)?

Aren't many of the P6 apocalypses out already? That should give a pretty 
good base from which someone can judge [personally, of course] whether 
P6 is a "better" language for him/her or not, correct?

I personally prefer Ruby too, btw. P6 may be more powerful or 
feature-rich (multiple inheritance, primitive types [perhaps?], etc) but 
there are some things that I want to leave behind for good, like $scalar 
vs @array vs %hash (which is not very OO-ish anyway). Also the need to 
end every line with a semicolon.

Of course, all this does not mean we cannot learn/borrow stuffs from P6. 
For example, Apocalypse 7 (Formats) looks pretty nifty for text 
processing, mail merge, templating, etc.

> Then you must be a deeply religious person, at least when it comes to
> programming languages.

-- 
dave