I assumed it was java that was being referred to :)
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 26, 2011 7:19 PM, "Ingy dot Net" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think he is referring to the pot calling the kettle black, implying that >> Python is as "legacy" as Perl. I concur. > > Again, I don't get it. python has had multiple major releases during the > time that perl 6 has been 'under development'. > > Regardless, perl's been dead to me for a long long time. > >> But I still contribute to PyPI and attend/present at Python events because >> at the end of the day, we are just > 2 beautiful drops in the bucket of a >> Java/C# sludge world. > >> I think it behooves us to work together. Perl has taken many good ideas >> that started in Python and Ruby, and made them better for Perl. Python could >> learn a lot from looking at Perl and Ruby. But if you choose to keep your >> head in the sand and believe that other languages are dead, it is your >> language that will soon be "legacy". > >> >> http://acmeism.org -- Ingy >> >> >> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> eh? I don't get it :) >>> >>> nimret >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:39 AM, geremy condra <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Nimret Sandhu <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ingy dot Net <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> Parrot is in active development. It is the VM for the Rakudo >>>> >> implementation of Perl 6 which is in very active development. >>>> > >>>> > and how long have they been in design/development? :) >>>> > >>>> >> >>>> >> Maybe it's from my days of working at ActiveState that I naturally >>>> >> think >>>> >> of Perl and Python as peers. We should have a SeaPIG/SPUG/Seattle.rb >>>> >> meetup >>>> >> sometime. >>>> > >>>> > imo perl is legacy. I haven't done any perl ( thank god!) since the >>>> > late 90s >>>> > and I haven't heard of any new perl work being done anywhere in the >>>> > last 10 >>>> > years. Lots of new startups in the area are using python. of course, >>>> > java/jvm still trumps both but I am biased ( I run SeaJUG :) >>>> >>>> Legacy pot meet legacy kettle ;) >>>> >>>> Geremy Condra >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Nimret Sandhu >>> http://www.nimret.org >> >> >
