Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> Five years seem an eternity in the frenetic world of dot_coms and the like.
> But it is not a long time in other areas of human activity.
Indeed. To quote Alan Perlis, "Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can
you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program th
On Thu, 2011-24-11 at 12:43 +0100, Raphael Descamps wrote:
> I think that it's a common misconception: a time-frame of 10-20 years
> for developing a "new" programming language is absolutely normal.
It's also worth looking at C++. This is a good reference:
http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/dne.htm
Am Mittwoch, den 23.11.2011, 17:21 +0100 schrieb Daniel Carrera:
> On 11/23/2011 02:58 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> Five years seem an eternity in the frenetic world of dot_coms and the
> like. But it is not a long time in other areas of human activity.
>
> Wanting perl6 to be finished will n
LOL, I will take that one. :) I looked at all of those. My company uses Ruby
so that is what i am going to work with at this time. I was leaning towards
scala as well but heard good things about closure and it may fit my needs since
i am looking for something that uses the java vm.
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On Nov
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:59:44AM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I see things differently. I think that the question "is Perl 6
> production ready?" is a meaningful and fairly important question.
>
> "Can I reasonably expect to use Perl 6 in a production environment?"
>
>
> The question has as
