On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:01:55AM -0800, yaphet jones wrote: > gentlemen - gomen nasai! dou itashimashite. I have to be honest, it's not very often I'm called a dimwit. Certainly not twice. But there is a deeper problem! People appear to be losing their sense of satire; this is terrible! Soon we might end up taking ourselves too seriously, and then where would we be? (from http://www.ntk.net/) sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering The perl5-porters and their monkish acolytes huddle around camp fires at the base of Mount Imparseable, where Larry convenes with the spirit of The More Than One Way. If absolute peace is maintained, he will soon return with the Three-Hundred-And-Sixty-One Tablets of Perl 6. But as they wait, in the pre-dawn East the sickly glow of RUBY grows stronger. Yes, Ruby, the language that says it's like Smalltalk (but is really cleaner Perlish syntax with better-than-Python-OOP and Satherish iteration) has traditionally been trapped in Japan by the Great Font Divide, unable to vex its Western ancestor. But no more. The rods are cast in twain; Addison-Wesley have a book out. They've open sourced the reference section, and Dr. Dobbs, that gullible old gatekeeper, has even written a tutorial in January's issue. Larry is wise, and strong. But remember how his one regret was he didn't get to a Christian missionary? Guess what Ruby's creator used to be? A missionary in Hiroshima, Larry. In Hiroshima. -- Actually Perl *can* be a Bondage & Discipline language but it's unique among such languages in that it lets you use safe words. -- Piers Cawley
