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Re: This week's summary
From:
Lars Balker Rasmussen
Date:
January 5, 2004 11:40
Subject:
Re: This week's summary
Message ID:
0f1xqedy47.fsf@laphroaig.balker.org
The Perl 6 Summarizer <p6summarizer@bofh.org.uk> writes:
> Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much done once
> Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are finished. Of course,
> the devil is in the details, but I don't doubt that the hoped for
> existence of a working Perl6::Rules by the end of April is going to
> provide us with a great deal of the leverage we need to get a working
> Perl 6 alpha ready for OSCON with something rather more solid ready by
> the end of the year. Parrot continues to amaze and delight with its
> progress; Dan tells me that he's about ready to roll out a large parrot
> based application for his employers, so it's approaching the point where
> people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be
> surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full
> implementation of at least one of the big non-Perl scripting languages
> on top of Parrot.
I'm confused, are you optimistic or pessimistic in that last sentence?
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Lars Balker Rasmussen Consult::Perl