--- Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:58:36 -0700, Brian McNett wrote: > > >on 7/31/00 1:29 PM, Ronald J Kimball at rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu wrote: > > > >>> The language is being rewritten "from the ground up" to bring it into the > >>> Web-based world and let it work with other Internet technologies... > >> > >> Well, it's about time! You don't know how long I've wanted to use Perl in > >> the web-based world and have it work with other Internet technologies. > > > >Six years in journalism teaches one to spot when a reporter is filling in > >the blanks. > > This whole thread ought to have been on <use.perl.org>. Why isn't it? > > And when I read these things in the article, I had the impression that I > was reading a five year old article, about a rewrite from Perl4 to > Perl5... > > BTW how can they know now, already, that Perl6 will be faster and have > better memory management? Wild claims, I would say. > > -- > Bart. > Those would be GOALS I'd say. And NOT unachievable ones given current compiler and general C.S. levels, even on PisCies. > # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? > # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org > > > > ===== Best Regards, Martin Michaels mtmichaels@yahoo.com "If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...wait a minute -- HE DOES!!!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ # ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? # ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org