On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:27:59AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> > > Perl's similarity to English is one of the things that makes it Fun.
> >
> > OTOH, being fun (which I admit it is) is one of the reasons many
> > people don't want to think Perl is a serious language.
> >
> > Not saying we should eliminate all the fun; but keeping something
> > on the merit of it's being fun is probably at odds with the goal
> > of make Perl more widely acceptable.
>
> Someone want to RFC a "fun" pragma:
>
> #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
>
> no fun; # for you!
Yes. I will write this up RSN (by early next week).
> Actually, Tim Maher and I were discussing something not entirely dissimilar
> for the purpose of teaching:
>
> use Training::Wheels;
> or:
> no Weird::Stuff;
This idea is what I asked Larry about from the open mike at the
TPC Town Meeting. It was something like:
Me:
Will you consider a switch/pragma to remove short-cuts and
DWIMery in Perl 6, so that when asked:
"Is Perl a good first programming language?"
We can say "with the -nodwim switch it is."
Larry:
Yes.
So I better write it up so he doesn't forget to consider it :-)
> Hmmmmm. I feel a paper coming on...
Noooo!
You don't have time for no stinkin' papers!
(unless you put it in the "*after* Christmas" bin)
We're expecting an (yeah, right) RFC from you.
I want RFC printouts in the smallest room in my house
for when I, errr... need them...
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