Re: RFC: Community Education Page -- perl.perl6.meta

2006-05-08 Thread Conrad Schneiker
David K Storrs wrote: Hmmm...This doesn't seem to have particularly grabbed the popular imagination among the Perl6 crowd. Well, I think it's the Perl5 crowd that is in much more need of having its imagination grabbed. :-) [big snip] Anyway, I very much like your ideas. (And Juerd's

Re: RFC: Community Education Page -- perl.perl6.meta

2006-05-08 Thread Conrad Schneiker
David K Storrs wrote: Hmmm...This doesn't seem to have particularly grabbed the popular imagination among the Perl6 crowd. Well, I think it's the Perl5 crowd that is in much more need of having its imagination grabbed. :-) [big snip] Anyway, I very much like your ideas. (And Juerd's

Re: RFC: Community Education Page -- perl.perl6.meta

2006-05-08 Thread Conrad Schneiker
David K Storrs wrote: Hmmm...This doesn't seem to have particularly grabbed the popular imagination among the Perl6 crowd. Well, I think it's the Perl5 crowd that is in much more need of having its imagination grabbed. :-) [big snip] Anyway, I very much like your ideas. (And Juerd's

RFC: Community Education Page

2006-05-07 Thread David K Storrs
Hmmm...This doesn't seem to have particularly grabbed the popular imagination among the Perl6 crowd. Let me ask something a little more concrete and see if that gets us to ignition, otherwise it's probably not feasible. Assume that I'm going to create, host, and maintain a small website

Re: RFC: Community Education Page

2006-05-07 Thread Doug McNutt
At 11:34 -0400 5/7/06, David K Storrs wrote: Hmmm...This doesn't seem to have particularly grabbed the popular imagination among the Perl6 crowd. I'm a lurker here, mostly interested in keeping perl 6 usable for mathematics and physics, but unable to keep up with most of the things I read.

RFC: Community education page

2006-05-04 Thread David K Storrs
I was chatting with a P6 person the other day (who can remain nameless unless he chooses to identify himself). He made the following observation: Every time we're lambasted for how long Perl 6 is taking I remind myself that Short Term Thinking is the norm now. I think there are a couple

Re: RFC: Community education page

2006-05-04 Thread james
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:44:29AM -0400, David K Storrs wrote: Also, the page should talk about why it is difficult to do what is being done. Ask the reader questions: You want to support continuations / have coroutines / embedd yacc in your language / whatever. How do you do it?

Re: RFC: Community education page

2006-05-04 Thread David K Storrs
On May 4, 2006, at 10:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:44:29AM -0400, David K Storrs wrote: Also, the page should talk about why it is difficult to do what is being done. Ask the reader questions: You want to support continuations / have coroutines / embedd yacc in

Re: RFC: Community education page

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:59:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but also people on the semi-inside, trying to remember things like I'm sure there's a reason other then C if condition_without_parens {block} that we can't have C %foo {'bar'} DTRT, but I can't remember it, which

Perl 6 Perl 6 Wiki Wiki (RFC: Community education page)

2006-05-04 Thread Juerd
Not entirely related, but: it would be great if someone wrote usable wiki software (with revision control support) in Perl 6, and could maintain it so that it keeps up with Pugs. Because of the current state of Pugs, it will have to be written in a very simple way. Especially if it looks great