Re: Critique available

2000-11-05 Thread Skud
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:30:00PM +, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:42:34PM -0500, Stephen P. Potter wrote: > > Not to mention "revisionist history". There were any number of uncourteous > > voices during the RFC process. > > Exactly. Dan, weren't you the very person who h

Re: Critique available

2000-11-05 Thread Skud
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:14:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 06:08 PM 11/2/00 +, Simon Cozens wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 11:44:50AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > Firstly, now, for the first time in the Perl history, we opened up the > > > floodgates, so the speak, and had

perl6 spec?

2000-11-05 Thread dLux
Dear Head Developers, especially Larry & Nat! I am a big perl fan (as most people here), and I dunno where I can find up-to-date info about perl6. I am especially interested in how you are going with the lang. spec and what the next step will be, and what will be the timeline now. I

Re: Design

2000-11-05 Thread Ken Fox
John van V wrote: > I have been predicting for a year now that perl6 will spawn another > language which will be a marriage of perl/python/scheme/sh, hopefully > enabling a billion or so humans in defiance of AOL and Microsoft. Wow! You're good! Most people were caught by surprise with the Perl