On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:19:26PM -0700, Daniel S. Wilkerson wrote:
I would say Simon was the one ignoring an issue and attacking a person, not
Vijay.
You are wrong. Go back through the archives. Vijay has posted four
messages: two of which are critical of Perl, two of which are pretty
If you have not been following this thread, then maybe that is
the reason for
the confused-sounding nature of your email.
I would say Simon was the one ignoring an issue and attacking a
person, not
Vijay. I think Vijay was the one pointing out that this person (Me) was
contributing to
on topic for the reformation of this language.
I consider this social reform of at least equal importance to the Perl
community as any new syntactic differences and changes in underlying parser
engines. I personally consider social reform to be far more important than
the latter, but I do not expect
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:54:13 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:19:26PM -0700, Daniel S. Wilkerson wrote:
I would say Simon was the one ignoring an issue and attacking a person, not
Vijay.
You are wrong. Go back through the archives. Vijay has posted four
messages: two of
-Original Message-
From: Bart Lateur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 10:48 AM
To: Perl 6 Language Mailing List
Subject: Re: Social Reform
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:54:13 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:19:26PM -0700, Daniel S. Wilkerson
Well, I *have* been following the discussion. And to me, it looks indeed
like you, Simon, were indeed attacking ME on non-technical grounds.
Vijay just jumped in for him, like a lioness trying to protect her
kittens.
Which he does from time to time, as do most of us, myself likely
Excuse me, my mistake.
David Grove wrote:
If you have not been following this thread, then maybe that is
the reason for
the confused-sounding nature of your email.
I would say Simon was the one ignoring an issue and attacking a
person, not
Vijay. I think Vijay was the one
this group, including your previous call to arms.
We will achieve social reform only by refusing to conduct ourselves in this
manner, and without social reform, Perl 6 may as well not exist for all the
good it does us as a community. Sure, it gives some overbrained geeks a
chance to play around
will achieve social reform only by refusing to conduct ourselves in this
manner, and without social reform, Perl 6 may as well not exist for all the
good it does us as a community. Sure, it gives some overbrained geeks a
chance to play around with language design for a while, but that's about
