On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:55:50AM -0500, Ken Fox wrote: > Were Perl and Python both grouped into the same category > of re-inventing the wheel?
Yes. > Or is this just the academic distaste for Perl syntax showing through? Don't forget that Python doesn't have a formally-defined language specification either. > I had hoped that the Perl 6 effort, especially Damian's influence, might > gain respect for Perl in the academic community. Doesn't sound like it > though. It's not all bad. Let's not forget that the conference actually took place, and it was really the first time the academic community and the real-world language implementors got together to chat about stuff. I count that as progress. > What new and interesting things did the "Them" crowd talk about? Oh, the usual, new languages that nobody else is going to use. :) Seriously, if you wait for just a couple of hours, I can finish this article that I'm promising you. Simon -- "A few hours later, I'm on the administrative floor, and a secretary asks me about some mail I sent that had [scrambled double-byte characters] in it. While I do use a Japanese-patched Mutt at work, I've never had any instance of it sending scrambled characters, so I went over to her machine to take a look: [...] it was my sendmail.cf" - Jonathan Byrne.
