Hello everybody,
that's a few month i'm following this mailing list. i dont like all the changes
that are being made to perl, i'm using perl since '97, anyway if i think about
it they're mostly all (until i understand everything) benefit to the language.
To make the background i was an assembly programmer on 6500, 6502, and well
65xx, and whatever you may think off, amiga (680x0), snes (65c816), that really
good archimede (that nobody ever used), and the intel marmelade since their
80386... all this to say i know a few things about computers.
If i must place languages that i like in order i would say:
1) ASM
2) perl
3) basic (yeah i know, everybody sez it stinks)
i like poetry in perl, i like obfuscations, i like obvious solutions made more
obvious. i like when peoples teach me perl. i like to tell peoples about perl.
Now i came thru this:
2002-09-11 21:38:30, Luke Palmer had a funny time writting:
> ...
> across all expression blocks, whether user-defined or built-in. Any
> expression block construct can be treated as either a statement or a
> component of an expression. Here's a block that is being treated as a
> term in an expression:
> $x = do {
> ...
> } + 1;
>
> However, if you write
> $x = do {
> ...
> }
> + 1;
> then the + will be taken erroneously as the start of a new statement.
> (So don't do that.)
> ...
This is the part i like about perl 5. Really. I like it, it seems when you're
doing I/O on a device, and nobody knows about the features. I like it! You're
writting a driver an nobody suspects what's you're about.
Now, if like asm for such things, i wouldnt use perl for such features.
Why? well you're used to:
> $x +=
> +1;
not to:
> } # implicit ';' THIS IS CRAZY#@!?
> +1;
If you're all going to make perl6 please try to keep things together. I mean i'd
prefer to:
> };
> +1
now perhaps i'm completly wrong. but for me, those CANT be different (yes, i
know, they can..). I admit it, it could be fun to have such things, but it
doesnt stand really clearly in my mind. And i dont think it fit any DWIM things.
Well, if it could fit in any mind (for consistency) i'd like to have someone to
explain. It doesnt feel natural, does it?
Before stopping this annoyance, for my first post here, i'd like to say, for
perl and parrot, some big thanks to:
Damian Conway
Dan Sugalski
Larry Wall
Luke Palmer
Michael G Schwern
Piers Cawley
Simon Cozens
Uri Guttman
Randal L. Schwartz
The p5p mailling list,
the p6p too,
And everybody i forgot here,
but that i read so frequently
Sorry for bothering, i've dropped a few schilling on yetanother.org :-)
Freddo
PS: if i can do anything to help, just ask (with enough help), i'm running
cygwin (on WinXP, the cygwin experimental version), linux, hp-ux and solaris
(different flavours) -- i know NOTHING about C, well, not that much about C.
http://freddo.netfirms.com/
