* Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-26 12:45]: > In the end it was decided to rewrite that chunk in Perl. I can > tell you, there definitely was cursing in the office that day, > and I doubt anyone there would see it as a plus to have the > ability to mix languages more easily. I just wouldn't put it > that way if I were trying to sell Perl6 to a business manager.
Using libraries from other languages and writing code in multiple languages are very different things. You will not be able to argue with a straight face that being able to do the former is a downside. Currently, “other languages” translates to C, so the utility of this is limited; being able to bridge to more languages would be a great boon. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>