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From:
Sam Vilain
Date:
November 7, 2001 04:45
Subject:
Re: flex perl mess
Message ID:
E161S4f-0001At-00@hoffman.vilain.net
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 12:26:31 +0000
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:

> Why limit Perl to OO and procedural programming at its core?

I just realised my mistake after looking at the hyperoperator discussion:
Hyperoperators bring functional programming to Perl, with all of the mad
but inspired programming nuttiness that comes with functional programmers.

So if functional programming can be in Perl 6, why not rules based
programming?

Sam.


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