Re: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-26 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-26 12:45]: In the end it was decided to rewrite that chunk in Perl. I can tell you, there definitely was cursing in the office that day, and I doubt anyone there would see it as a plus to have the ability to mix languages more easily. I just

Re: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-26 Thread Michael Mathews
On 26/05/06, A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-26 12:45]: In the end it was decided to rewrite that chunk in Perl. I can tell you, there definitely was cursing in the office that day, and I doubt anyone there would see it as a plus to have the

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Larry Wall
This topic may be better suited to perl6-language, unless you consider its denizens to already be self-selected against logic programming. :) Larry

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: David Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] duplicate results and this is almost always wrong. (See http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/28378 for an SQL example of this problem). I re-read your journal entry and comments (I had read it back when you first had posted

Re: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my question to the list is, in simple terms even an IT manager could grasp, explain what problems Perl 5 has that Perl 6 fixes, such that they would want to undergo the pain of ever switching. From a Perl point of view: there should be no pain. At