Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At 01:35 21/04/2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!" Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career! go to sleep, what time do you call this! ;-) Australia! Even my datetime concepts are not quite that bad Dave ;-) -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:57:01PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: Funny. You've come across the same idea I did. http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf Having now read your paper, I think that in some ways it's the *opposite* idea; or at least a complementary one. You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an arbitrary language :-) .robin. -- "There is a global coincidence of desires for this"
Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:57:01PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: Funny. You've come across the same idea I did. http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf Having now read your paper, I think that in some ways it's the *opposite* idea; or at least a complementary one. You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an arbitrary language :-) Here be dragons. Later. Mark. P.S. You might want to have a look at File::Remote (as this 'overrides' open and changes it's meaning.) Oh and http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03442.html -- ENOSIGSIGONOTHERMACHINE
RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides
From: Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:37 AM On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote: You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an arbitrary language :-) Here be dragons. "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!" Or can you? Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: Mark Fowler wrote on the 20th April: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote: You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an arbitrary language :-) Here be dragons. "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!" It's more like DWRM programming (do what robin means.) Later. Mark. -- ESIGSTILLONOTHERCOMPUTER EUSERTOOLAZYTOUSESCP
RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides
"You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!" Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career! Damian