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A quick way to implement Perl 6

brian_d_foy on 2003-11-19T15:32:50

I thought of this really trivial way to implement Perl 6, but this textarea widget is too small.

Lisp?

Dom2 on 2003-11-19T15:33:59

A compiler to Lisp? :-)

-Dom

Re:Lisp?

nicholas on 2003-11-19T15:52:33

Eh? I think you used the wrong 4 letter word there. Like parrot, I'm currently assuming that a copy of perl5 exists for the bootstrapping process:

perl -MFile::Find -e 'find (sub {my $old = $_; return unless s/ruby/perl6/g; rename $old, $_ or warn "$old: $!"}, @ARGV)'

I'm reminded of Fermat...

hex on 2003-11-20T11:12:51

...and when he wrote in the margin of his copy of the Arithmetica by Diophantus "For this, I have found a truly wonderful proof, but the margin is too small to contain it."

Re:I'm reminded of Fermat...

babbage on 2003-11-20T19:02:06

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's what the joke here is... :-)

Re:I'm reminded of Fermat...

hex on 2003-11-20T19:08:03

This is the sound of an obvious joke flying past someone: ZOOOOOSH!

D'oh.