Hey, we could call it Perl 9 from Outer Space. No wait...
Larry
Nathan Wiger writes:
: Maybe the name Perl should be dropped altogether?
No. The Schemers had to do a name change because the Lisp name had
pretty much already been ruined by divergence.
: (Granted, that's not what I'd prefer, but the changes are getting
: rather massive and are starting to
David L. Nicol writes:
: Steve Fink wrote (and I edited slightly):
:
: groan I can't figure out why so many people misinterpret my RFC12
: as requiring a solution to the halting problem.
:
: a large class of incompletely expressed
: suggestions appear to get grouped into
:
: "This requires
.
For instance, I only started writing this talk yesterday. Another one
of these Just In Time talks. I'll probably finish it sometime
tomorrow. Lateness is one of my specialties. Someday I'll be dead,
and when you refer to me as "the Late Larry Wall", people will think
you were joking.
Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
: confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of course
