Re: P6ML? [OT]
--- Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:44 AM -0800 3/25/03, Michael Lazzaro wrote: So, is anyone working on a P6ML, and/or is there any discussion/agreement of what it would entail? I, for one, think it's a great idea, and the thought of altering perl 6's grammar to make it a functional language is sheer genius, making the concepts behind ML more accessible to folks used to procedural languages. Darned good idea--I say start right away! |==[*]| Sarcasmeter? lol -- I think my BS-o-meter just redlined, too But just to make sure I'm not completely clueless on this one, would someone give me a clue as to exactly what P6ML is supposed to mean, and whether or not the original post was intended as humor? No insult intended (at least not from me, lol), but ML as in Markup Language? Or maybe as in the ML programming language (you know, the one used in recursion examples), and it was a question of whether it was being ported to parrot __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
Re: P6ML? [OT]
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:44 AM -0800 3/25/03, Michael Lazzaro wrote: So, is anyone working on a P6ML, and/or is there any discussion/agreement of what it would entail? I, for one, think it's a great idea, and the thought of altering perl 6's grammar to make it a functional language is sheer genius, making the concepts behind ML more accessible to folks used to procedural languages. Darned good idea--I say start right away! |==[*]| Sarcasmeter? lol -- I think my BS-o-meter just redlined, too But just to make sure I'm not completely clueless on this one, would someone give me a clue as to exactly what P6ML is supposed to mean, and whether or not the original post was intended as humor? No insult intended (at least not from me, lol), but ML as in Markup Language? Or maybe as in the ML programming language (you know, the one used in recursion examples), and it was a question of whether it was being ported to parrot My assumption is that Dan has chosen to deliberately misinterpret the P6ML as being P6/ML -- and that he's all in favor of making P6 more functional since it will make the parser easier. Sadly, however, P6ML comes from P6/XML, and so Dan is condemned to slave away at a grammar which is going to make PL/I look easy, when all is said and done. (Although I still maintain that Fortran is currently underrepresented in core, since FORMATs went away. :-) =Austin __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
Re: P6ML? [OT]
At 11:52 AM -0800 3/25/03, Paul wrote: --- Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:44 AM -0800 3/25/03, Michael Lazzaro wrote: So, is anyone working on a P6ML, and/or is there any discussion/agreement of what it would entail? I, for one, think it's a great idea, and the thought of altering perl 6's grammar to make it a functional language is sheer genius, making the concepts behind ML more accessible to folks used to procedural languages. Darned good idea--I say start right away! |==[*]| Sarcasmeter? lol -- I think my BS-o-meter just redlined, too Heh. Sorry 'bout that. Bring it to OSCON and I'll get it fixed. :) I think the original was an XML in perl 6 proposal of some sort. XML makes me twitch, though. Ick. A (or is that an?) ML compiler for parrot'd be really cool, though. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
Re: P6ML? [OT]
At 12:47 PM -0800 3/25/03, Paul wrote: |==[*]| Sarcasmeter? lol -- I think my BS-o-meter just redlined, too Heh. Sorry 'bout that. Bring it to OSCON and I'll get it fixed. :) lol -- when/where is that? (Seems all I do here is ask dumb questions). *sigh* Portland Oregon, July 7-11. The 7th and 8th are tutorials, the conference proper is wednesday the 9th through friday the 11th. The conference is just down the street from Powell's (www.powells.com) which is possibly the single best, and certainly biggest, used bookstore in the US, if not the planet. Bring lots of money and a spare pair of suitcases. A (or is that an?) ML compiler for parrot'd be really cool, though. Anything in Parrot is likely to be pretty cool. :) I dunno. Can *anything* make INTERCAL cool? I think not! :-P -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
