Ponie in haiku

2003-08-03 Thread Andrew Savige
Gallop Ponie bold!
Beer to gulp, Buffy astride
Orange sky surrounds

BTW, has anyone got a nice graphic of a Ponie?

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Re: review: Perl 6 Essentials

2003-08-03 Thread David H. Adler
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 04:02:25PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:

 pHow do you write a book about a language that does not exist?/p
 
 pThe short answer is that you can't. Here we have 208 pages of evidence that
 Perl 6 isn't just vapourware. Sure, you can't run a Perl 6 program yet (unless
 Damian's upgraded his brain to a multi-user OS)

Just to pick a nit...

The perl 6 program Cprint hello world\n; can be run under perl 5.

A bunch of what exists of perl 6 can be run under parrot.

A number of perl 6 features have been done as perl 5 modules.



Yeah, I have nothing better to do with my time.  Why do you ask?  :-)

dha

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