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From:
John Porter
Date:
April 17, 2001 06:23
Subject:
Re: Parsing perl 5 with perl 6 (was Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1)
Message ID:
20010417092356.A23163@min.net
Tim Bunce wrote:
> If the file doesn't start with Perl 6 thingy then
> it's Perl 5. Period.

To mandate the impossible is to mandate failure.

"Nothing can parse perl like Perl."

Why is that?


> My reading of Larry's comments is that it won't be "in" our "new
> beautiful code".   [Umm, pride before a fall?]

I'd say yes... but whose pride, really?  And whose fall?


> the parsers are going to be in perl, remember.

Sorry, Tim, I must have missed that.  Reference, please?


> It's quite staggering how much hot air has been
> generated from Larry's first significant outline. Much of it missing,
> or casually disregarding, key points of deep or subtle meaning.

Lofty ideals often must make way for practical realities.

-- 
John Porter

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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