I have had this idea for a post for a couple of days now and in light of the recently written Apocalypse 2, I have decided to post it. Basically I want to throw out a basic question to you all because after reading through the Apocalypse, I've found this kind of stuff to be real interesting :-). Coming to you in under ten words, here it is:
I have had this idea for a post for a while now and in light of this recently posted writeup, I've decided to post it. Basically, I want to throw out a basic question for you to think about and respond on because I have found that this kind of stuff is interesting to me. Coming to you in under two words, here it is:
What would you do if you were Larry Wall?
- What changes would and wouldn't you make from perl5 to perl6 based on his recent decisions?
- Would you completely change the structure of the Perl language as proposed?
- Or would you try to have most of perl5 be compatible with perl6?
- What functions would you create, what functions would you eliminate?
What would you do if you were Larry Wall?
- What kinds of comments would you make sure to include in the perl6 source code?
- Would you work to make a perl a more efficiently compileable language?
- Would you continue to mess with perl or move your focuses to a language like Parrot?
What would you do if you were Larry Wall?
- Would you change perl's license and continue to improve it for profit?
- Would you hand over the project to the hands of Zenon Zabinski?
- Or would you just let it sit and let it remain perl5 forever?
I have had this idea for a post for a while now and in light of this recently posted writeup, I've decided to post it. Basically, I want to throw out a basic question for you to think about and respond on because I have found that this kind of stuff is interesting to me. Coming to you in under two words, here it is:
Why ...?
Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com
NOTE: This post is NOT representative of any actual views of Zenon Zabinski, a.k.a. zdog. This post does not apply to you if your name is Larry Wall.
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Re (tilly) 1: What would you do if you were Larry Wall?
by tilly (Archbishop) on May 05, 2001 at 17:35 UTC | |
Re: What would you do if you were Larry Wall?
by frankus (Priest) on Jun 26, 2002 at 09:15 UTC | |
Re: What would you do if you were Larry Wall?
by converter (Priest) on May 05, 2001 at 20:56 UTC | |
Re: What would you do if you were Larry Wall?
by xbot (Initiate) on May 05, 2001 at 07:46 UTC |
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