Re: .NET

2001-05-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:26:27PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: You are saying that the Clippy wasn't originally and truly annoying? :-) Annoying enough to spawn vigor! http://www.red-bean.com/~joelh/vigor/ -- Michael G. Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6

Re: .NET

2001-05-03 Thread Ilya Martynov
You can serialize/deserilize object with Storable $foo = new Bar store_fd $foo, \*SOCKET; and on the other end $foo = retrieve_fd \*SOCKET; $foo-bar; It will work if you have Bar module on both ends. DS Right, but I want it to work if you don't... Then maybe SOAP::Lite? SOAP

Re: .NET

2001-05-03 Thread Dave Storrs
On 3 May 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote: You can serialize/deserilize object with Storable $foo = new Bar store_fd $foo, \*SOCKET; and on the other end $foo = retrieve_fd \*SOCKET; $foo-bar; It will work if you have Bar module on both ends. DS Right, but I want it to

Re: .NET

2001-05-03 Thread John Barnette
Dave Storrs said: On 3 May 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote: You can serialize/deserilize object with Storable $foo = new Bar store_fd $foo, \*SOCKET; and on the other end $foo = retrieve_fd \*SOCKET; $foo-bar; It will work if you have Bar module on both ends. DS

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread Larry Wall
David Grove writes: : Larry, et. al.: Is this similarity on purpose? Yes, but only becase .NET is a VM, not because it's from MicroSoft. The basic goal is to have a Perl VM that can sit easily on other VMs, whether .NET's or Java's or our own. Another example of competing by cooperating, which

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread John Porter
David Grove wrote: am seeing some similarities between some of the proposed goals of Perl 6 and the .NET platform. . . . many things in .NET have been discussed similarly here. That's because .NET attempts to address real-world issues. The goals of .NET are not evil in and of themselves, you

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread Uri Guttman
DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS I've mumbled about it on and off. I'd like to be able to do: DS$foo = new Bar; DSprint SOCKET serialze($foo); DS and on the other end do: DS$foo = unserialize(SOCKET); DS$foo-bar(); DS I don't know that much has

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread John Porter
Dan Sugalski wrote: I'd like to be able to do: $foo = new Bar; print SOCKET serialze($foo); and on the other end do: $foo = unserialize(SOCKET); $foo-bar(); I personally am a big fan of Obliq semantics. It's something I'd really like to see in perl. -- John Porter It's so

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread Ilya Martynov
DS At 12:54 PM 5/2/2001 -0400, John Porter wrote: David Grove wrote: distributed objects, I don't recall discussion of this wrt perl6, frankly. DS I've mumbled about it on and off. I'd like to be able to do: DS$foo = new Bar; DSprint SOCKET serialze($foo); DS and on the other

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 09:30 PM 5/2/2001 +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: DS At 12:54 PM 5/2/2001 -0400, John Porter wrote: David Grove wrote: distributed objects, I don't recall discussion of this wrt perl6, frankly. DS I've mumbled about it on and off. I'd like to be able to do: DS$foo = new Bar; DS

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread David Grove
am seeing some similarities between some of the proposed goals of Perl 6 and the .NET platform. . . . many things in .NET have been discussed similarly here. That's because .NET attempts to address real-world issues. The goals of .NET are not evil in and of themselves, you know. Depends

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:22:26PM -0400, David Grove wrote: am seeing some similarities between some of the proposed goals of Perl 6 and the .NET platform. . . . many things in .NET have been discussed similarly here. That's because .NET attempts to address real-world issues. The

RE: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread David Grove
-Original Message- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:26 PM To: David Grove Cc: Perl 6 Language Mailing List Subject: Re: .NET (still waiting for something original for a change). You are saying that the Clippy wasn't

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread Dan Brian
Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You http://joel.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$320 This is a really good article. The quotes from MS and Sun whitepapers are living proof that rarely are superior technical means being espoused. Superior sales are the more likely culprit,

Re: .NET

2001-05-02 Thread John Porter
It's certainly a mistake to say the goals of .NET, as if they were a monolithic whole. But the point is, some of the (technical) goals of .NET are worthy, if not the slightest bit original; and so it should not be a shame if some of Perl6's goals were collinear with them. And I hope that ends

Re: Net::Ping problem

2000-09-06 Thread Tad McClellan
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:51:03PM +0200, Willy wrote: Does anyone know how can i [snip] How can i do?? You cannot do this in perl6 because perl6 does not yet exist. Please do not abuse this mailing list with off-topic questions. Thank you. -- Tad McClellan