Re: This week's summary => Perl 6 perlplexities

2005-11-15 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Perl 6 perlplexities Michele Dondi worries that the increase in complexity of some aspects of Perl 6 is much bigger than the increase in functionality that the complexity buys us. In particular Michele is concerned that the Perl 6

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-05 Thread Michele Dondi
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Slightly tangentially to this, Dan Sugalski blogged a couple of weeks ago about his successes and failures with Parrot. The comments are worth reading -- there's a fair few more or less well founded complaints about the way the Perl 6

Re: new mailing list: perl6-general?

2005-06-15 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-2] BÁRTHÁZI András wrote: Where should I ask, that what's PGE means? Yes, I know, it's Parrot Grammar Engine, and I know what it is, but a beginnner maybe not. And I think that Which makes me think that first or later it may be worth to start a FAQ for questions

Re: (OT) Re: Perl development server

2005-05-24 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Herbert Snorrason wrote: Icelandic: laukur (Incidentally, none of you will ever guess how to correctly pronounce that.) Incidentally, would 'laukurdottir' be a proper Icelandic offence? :-) Michele -- Me too. If it's any comfort, just think of the design of Perl 6 as a

Re: (OT) Re: Perl development server

2005-05-24 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 24 May 2005, wolverian wrote: Portuguese: cebola Finnish: sipoli Italian: cipolla (since nobody has mentioned it yet) Michele -- It was part of the dissatisfaction thing. I never claimed I was a nice person. - David Kastrup in comp.text.tex, "Re: verbatiminput double spacing"

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

2005-05-04 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 ^^ ^^ Wow! Michele -- Why should I read the fucking manual? I know how to fuck! In fact the problem is that the fucking manual only gives you theoretica

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19

2005-04-20 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Python on Parrot ^^ Kevin Tew wondered what the state of pyrate was. Sam Ruby provided a general explanation. (I'm not on all of the lists, so this may have come out before and I j

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-09 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: pipe dreams Juerd wondered if he could mix = and ==> in a sane way. The answer appears to be no. Once you bring in ==> you should stick with it. Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C<< ==> >> is supposed to be yet another ope