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

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.

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