Re: Turning Japanese (was Re: It's Funny. Laugh.)

2001-02-18 Thread yaphet jones
subarashii! eigo no kotoba = "wonderful!" "Coding in Ruby" to the tune of "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors with endless apologies to everyone involved. creativity! at last! actually, i'm all smiles (^_^) I've got your tarball, I've got your tarball I'm milling over installing it myself

Re: The binding of my (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-17 Thread yaphet jones
Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As someone else said before me, Perl should not be changed Just Because We Can. Aspects which have proven usefulness and are deeply engrained in the Perl mindset should not be tampered with just because some recent

Re: The binding of my (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-17 Thread yaphet jones
On Sat, Feb 17 2001 09:04:54 -0800, Simon Cozens wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 08:02:08AM -0800, yaphet jones wrote: the tchrist (christiansen) said it best, when he described perl5: ...an "expert-friendly" language... And he was right. Perl is *not* deliberately dumbed down, becau

Re: The binding of my (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-17 Thread yaphet jones
Johan Vromans wrote: If a Perl construct does not suffer from a slight change that makes it easier to accept by new programmers, I think such changes should be seriously considered. Yes; but the world if full of language [sorry, couldn't resist] which is optimized (or at least meant to be)

Re: The binding of my (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope

2001-02-17 Thread yaphet jones
Feeding the troll: careful with the troll talk: remember, your god's favorite book is the "lord of the rings"...chock full of trolls...and hobbits, too! = example 2: ruby = now more popular than python in its native japan Python isn't native to Japan. obviously, nitwit...ruby is the

Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/

2001-02-12 Thread yaphet jones
gentlemen (a small liberty, i admit) - all of this *pointless* debate could be set aside - if all of you would just renounce perl - and adopt ruby as your language it's why larry has shut himself up in silence - feigning illness: *true (not bolted-on) oo language *modern (not