On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:50:39PM -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
Its a higher level construct. Akin to telling your interior decorator
that you'd like the furniture to match the wallpaper. You've left
out all the details but the decorator can easily see what you're talking
about.
So
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:31:30PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
not because language design is a fun thing to do of an evening.
Huh? You mean I'm supposed to pretend to not enjoy myself? I keep
all my hair shirts at work, thanks.
Don't be stupid. I said we're *primarily* doing it for the good of
Simon Cozens wrote:
Right. You don't seem to be getting it, so I'm going to have to be harsh
here.
Are you sure? Is it possible that it's just that this isn't a side of
programming you've had need for or are familiar with yourself? TMTOWTDI, you
know, even if you're way is the best way.
You
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:47:47PM +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
I feel that your RFC misses the inclusive nature of perl.
Then I withdraw it. Perl should not stay Perl, fuck it. Call me when it's
time to get coding.
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On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:54:25PM +0900, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:47:47PM +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
I feel that your RFC misses the inclusive nature of perl.
Then I withdraw it. Perl should not stay Perl, fuck it. Call me when it's
time to get coding.
This language is
"SC" == Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SC On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:47:47PM +1000, Jeremy Howard wrote:
I feel that your RFC misses the inclusive nature of perl.
SC Then I withdraw it. Perl should not stay Perl, fuck it. Call me when it's
SC time to get coding.
I think you missed
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:05:38AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
Suggestion: Can we manually renumber this "RFC 0"? This should be the
first one at the top of the list, not buried somewhere within. my($.02).
We *shouldn't* need to spell this out for people.
It really, really terrifies me that we
Hear, hear!
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Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
=item Functional Programming
Just because Perl has a Cmap operator, this doesn't make it a
functional programming language. Perl has always been squarely
procedural,
It has also been roundly object-oriented and rectangularly functional,
at least since
I'm not quite buying into this.
There are some things that are just easier with this style of thinking.
Its a higher level construct. Akin to telling your interior decorator
that you'd like the furniture to match the wallpaper. You've left
out all the details but the decorator can easily see
"PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PRL =item Functional Programming
PRL Just because Perl has a Cmap operator, this doesn't make it a
PRL functional programming language. Perl has always been squarely
PRL procedural, and so things like Creduce and Ccurry and other
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
not because language design is a fun thing to do of an evening.
Huh? You mean I'm supposed to pretend to not enjoy myself? I keep
all my hair shirts at work, thanks.
If that's the case, nobody wins if we bend the Perl language out of all
recognition, because it
This and other RFCs are available on the web at
http://tmtowtdi.perl.org/rfc/
=head1 TITLE
Perl should stay Perl.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Aug 4 2000
Version: 1
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Number: 28
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