Larry Wall spoke:
>
> Here are some from the "bad" directory. (reads from one) ... and they
> want us to solve the halting problem. No.
That was RFC12, mine. I can't figure out why so many people
interpret that RFC as requiring a solution to the halting problem. If
anything, it explicitly rec
J. David Blackstone wrote:
>
> Do we need to add a book on Japanese to the reading list? Seems like
> I'm the only one here who doesn't speak it.
>
> [And now they're keeping the newbies locked out by doing all
> development work in Japanese.]
That's one thing we definitely DON'T want to borro
David Grove wrote:
>
> but then, proper japanese is read top to bottom, right to left... sounds like
> forth
befunge.
http://www.zebra.net/~dm/funge/spec98.html
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John Porter
John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >
> > But will there be a "meanuntil"?
>
> Not to mention "modewhile", "medianuntil", etc.
generouswhile, generousuntil...
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Piers
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Larry Wall wrote:
> Simon Cozens writes:
> : You're learning Japanese, right? It's gotta be "toriaezu".[1] :)
>
> Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
> verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
>
> @foo wa kaite ku
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 01:07 AM 10/19/00 -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> You're not the only one. (Though it is on my todo list... :)
>
> >[And now they're keeping the newbies locked out by doing all
> >development work in Japanese.]
>
> Nah. Only those newbies that d
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> [And now they're keeping the newbies locked out by doing all
> development work in Japanese.]
Well, we might get lots of developers recruited from the Ruby camp ;)
Cheers,
Philip
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Adam Turoff wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
> > verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
> >
> > @foo wa kaite kudasai;
>
> So,
>
>
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > @foo wa kaite kudasai;
>
> Surely they only need to go at the end if they're in a Japanese script?
> The Latin alphabet transliteration could still sit in front.
No, IMO they'd still
At 01:07 AM 10/19/00 -0500, J. David Blackstone wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> >> Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
> >> confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of course,
> >> that this is not a perfect s
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>> Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
>> confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of course,
>> that this is not a perfect solution--they haven't come up with the
>> right name here: save
On Wednesday, October 18, 2000 12:59 PM, Larry Wall [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Simon Cozens writes:
> : You're learning Japanese, right? It's gotta be "toriaezu".[1] :)
>
> Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
> verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we g
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:00:31 -0700 (PDT), Larry Wall wrote:
[about a better name for "local":]
>: interim()?
>
>I'm sorely tempted to make it:
>
>meanwhile our $foo = 2
That gives me visions of coroutines. "Meanwhile, back in Kansas, this is
what's happening..."
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Bart.
At 10:58 AM 10/18/00 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Simon Cozens writes:
>: You're learning Japanese, right? It's gotta be "toriaezu".[1] :)
>
>Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
>verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
>
> @foo wa kaite ku
At 07:39 PM 10/18/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:37:16PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg00517.html
>
>No, and no, and no.
Of course not. That'd make perl look like Intercal, which would be silly.
Since it's going
At 11:00 AM 10/18/00 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>: > > Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
>: > > confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of course,
>: > > that this is not a perfect sol
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
> verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
>
> @foo wa kaite kudasai;
So,
mitsu no @foo wa kaite kudasai; # print $foo[3];
That bri
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:37:16PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg00517.html
No, and no, and no.
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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> But will there be a "meanuntil"?
Not to mention "modewhile", "medianuntil", etc.
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John Porter
Simon Cozens wrote:
>
> "Now, we have to start over from scratch". That's INTERCAL.
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg00517.html
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John Porter
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:58:45 -0700 (PDT), Larry Wall wrote:
>Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
>verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
>
>@foo wa kaite kudasai;
Dynamic FORTH. Cool. ;-)
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Bart.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> @foo wa kaite kudasai;
Wahey, INTERCAL in Japanese.
"Now, we have to start over from scratch". That's INTERCAL.
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The debate rages on: Is Perl Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Nicholas Clark writes:
> (and it would show off the Unicode abilities of perl if keywords were
> aliasable into the alphabet of your choice. But there might be a price
> to pay in script maintainability.)
Damian has modules to support Klingon constants and keywords.
Nat
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:58:45AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Simon Cozens writes:
> : You're learning Japanese, right? It's gotta be "toriaezu".[1] :)
>
> Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
> verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
>
>
> "Larry" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Larry> I'm sorely tempted to make it:
Larry> meanwhile our $foo = 2
But will there be a "meanuntil"?
{ducking...}
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Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > > Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
: > > confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of cour
Simon Cozens writes:
: You're learning Japanese, right? It's gotta be "toriaezu".[1] :)
Yes, but if we go down that route, we're gonna end up with all the
verbs at the end. Instead of "print @foo", we get something like:
@foo wa kaite kudasai;
Larry
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
> > confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of course,
> > that this is not a perfect
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> Rename the local operator? Yeah, I think we ought to do that. It
> confuses people when we call it local(). The problem is, of course,
> that this is not a perfect solution--they haven't come up with the
> right name here: savetmp, t
Here's a (slightly) cleaned up copy of what has been transcribed so
far, with at least the titles of the slides stitched in.
Larry
As I look around here, I see a lot of young faces. Almost too young.
I like youth. I always planned to stay young all my life. I've always
been blessed with a fac
Here's the slides that went with:
http://www.wall.org/~larry/als/talk.html
The font sizes are all screwed up because I was going to use PowerPoint
under Vmware and my Vmware crapped out on me. So I had to switch at
the last moment to using XML and Netscrape, with my fonts forced to
look
Whoops, I misread the mp3 player. Not 1:26, that's the total length.
1:02 is where I was when I stopped.
Ugh, transcription is hard says typist Barbie.
Nat
[I have to wake up in about 4 hours, so this is all you get, the
first 1h26m of the talk, loosely transcribed and not proofread]
As I look around here, I see a lot of yougn faces. Almost too young.
I like you. I always planned to stay young all my life. I've always
been blessed with a face tha
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