Re: Critique available

2000-11-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:42 AM 11/3/00 +, Simon Cozens wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:14:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Not in the p5p sense, at least. Regardless of the levels of disapproval, generally the disapproval was voiced with at least some courtesy. p5p is rather less polite about things. I

Re: Critique available

2000-11-03 Thread Stephen P. Potter
Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] whispere d: | On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:14:25PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: | Not in the p5p sense, at least. Regardless of the levels of disapproval, | generally the disapproval was voiced with at least some courtesy. p5p

Re: Critique available

2000-11-03 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Comparing the perl6-language and the perl5-porters simply doesn't fly. It's not even comparing apples and oranges, it's like comparing a busy market place and a faculty lunch. In the first case we are talking about a crowd of people most of which do not know each other, do not know what the

Re: Critique available

2000-11-03 Thread Richard Proctor
Ok, Iv'e seen this debate - I will try to put something constructive:- Richard =Head1 My opinions of the Perl6 RFC process =head2 Where do I come from this? I am an amauteur perl user who uses it on web sites and for other admin tasks. Have I looked at the code? - Yes. Do I know the

Re: Critique available

2000-11-03 Thread David Grove
Anyone think others are needed? "Myopia neither equates the absence of existence of a distant object, nor demonstrates the insanity of the non-myopic." or, roughly translated, "Issues should be faced rather than avoided by attacking the person who points them out."