From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-04-21T02:54:08+09:00
Subject: Google for 'Rubyometer'

In article <cY9hc.15707$l75.11945@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>,
Mark J. Reed  <mreed@thereeds.org> wrote:
>Ollivier Robert <roberto@REMOVETHIS.eu.org> writes:
>
>So far, I think Perl6 looks very promising.  Just as the original Perl did, it
>has incorporated good ideas from other languages - this time including
>languages that were themselves influenced by Perl, such as Ruby.  I've never
>liked the Perl5 O-O solution, and it looks like Perl6's will be much better.
>It's definitely Rubylike in some ways - discussions on the perl6-language list
>make repeated reference to an increasing measurement on a "Rubyometer" -  but
>in others it's completely unlike it, or any other O-O scripting language
>with which I'm familiar.
>

Interesting: a google search on 'rubyometer' does indeed yield several 
referecnes in Perl6 discussion lists (including some by Larry Wall himself).

Phil