'serious project' ???
For some 'serious' people, Perl6 is a 'serious project'. Concepts of
'serious' differ amongst reasonable people. Not a problem if your
'serious' aint my 'serious'.
As an aside, it took 358 years to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. Wiles -
who proved it - shut himself away for the five years he spent creating
the last part of the proof sequence. A number of historical figures have
looked at the problem.
That to my mind is a 'serious project' and serious people, and Wiles did
indeed work on it in a 'basement' as a 'hobby'. It was an obsession and
he was afraid of telling people what he was working on. But now we
consider him a hero.
Rakudo and Perl6 is being developed in the way it is for good and
practical reasons.
Richard
On 01/05/11 20:24, Wendell Hatcher wrote:
I have to agree I don't think this is a serious project. In-fact at this point
it seems like a bunch of friends working on a hobby in their basement.
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On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Guy Hulbert<gwhulb...@eol.ca> wrote:
On Wed, 2011-05-01 at 18:02 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:30, Guy Hulbert<gwhulb...@eol.ca> wrote:
Rakudo is not listed here:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
Fixing that is something I'd like to help with.
Note that go was listed *before* it was announced. That tells me that
the go authors are, in some small way, more serious about their project
"succeeding" than perl6.
So your suggestion to Gabor is to add the question:
No. The subject changed ...
Do you think that NOT listing Rakudo at shootout.alioth.debian.org means
Rakudo is not a serious project?
Or did you have some other point?
Marketing.
(This is the first time I've seen shootout.alioth.debian.org, I won't claim
that it's not a serious shootout just because of that, BTW.)
When go was announced a link to 'shootout' was in the announcement. I
think I might have seen if before that but, if so, i'd forgotten so it
was new to me at the time.
What got me interested in perl6 was the april fools announcement about
parrot ostensibly by Larry and Guido. Something like 10 years ago.
I don't learn new programming languages unless I have something to do
with it. I've been looking at what it would take to implement
perl6/rakudo versions of the programs on 'shootout', and I think I can
do it so I will try to get one or two of them running properly in the
benchmarker.
The benchmarking program can be downloaded (which I've done) and comes
bundled with 2 or 3 python programs, one of which requires python 2.5
and I'm still on python 2.4 (don't ask). However I've figured out how
to see the source for example programs, so I'll manually download all
the perl5 and C ones and try to get the benchmarker going for those.
It'll take me a little while ...
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