Re: Perl Implementation Language

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:06 PM 9/14/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:40:31PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > Are there any better reasons than "It would be nice?"
> >
> > Can there *be* a better reason than "It would be nice"? Seriously,
> > niceness is a damned fine goal.
>
>No, it isn't. Practical wins over nice any day. Fast probably wins over nice,
>too.

The only reason I can see nice winning over fast is if nice brings in whole 
new concepts to the language. (Like, say, matrix ops or Damian's currying stuf)

>Just because something's easy to code, that doesn't mean we should code
>it, or all perl6 will do is print "hello world".
>
>Sheesh, it's going to be a wonder if we get that far.

That, I think, is a bit of excessive pessimism, though I'm rather glad it's 
here.

                                        Dan

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