Anyone who can't spell "Perl 6" correctly (note the space) hasn't paid enough attention to the language to know anything about it to discuss it cogently. Thus, arguing with them on the Internet is a severe waste of my time.
That is all.
I had no problem finding other examples scattered around.
Perl6: The PERL of the 21st century!
Re:Oh, the irony
chromatic on 2007-02-05T04:48:58
No kidding. I once corrected everything in Pugs, but that was a long time ago and I grew tired of chasing it down.
Re:Oh, the irony
audreyt on 2007-02-07T04:16:24
Er, the "Perl6 FAQ" page is not hosted as part of the Pugs repository (note the URL: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html ) so I'm not exactly sure what the relevance is...Re:Oh, the irony
chromatic on 2007-02-07T06:13:33
I changed the subject halfway through the comment; I didn't mean to imply any sort of connection that is or isn't there. It was merely an example of a spot where I could and did make corrections for a while.
I apologize for any confusion.
Re:Oh, the irony
audreyt on 2007-02-07T11:49:56
Ah ok, no apologies needed, I was indeed simply confused.(In the spec, the canonical spelling seems to be "Perl 6" instead of "Perl 6" -- with U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE instead of U+0020 SPACE. So perhaps the U+0020 form can be considered as an ASCII fallback approximation...)
Re:Oh, the irony
ask on 2007-02-21T00:01:44
Patches or just corrections are always welcome to webmaster at the obvious domain.
http://svn.perl.org/perl.org/docs/live/dev/perl6/
(I fixed the references in the FAQ FWIW).
- ask
Re:Don't be pompous
chromatic on 2007-02-05T04:41:59
I don't take writing tips from people who can't spell or conjugate. I don't hire database administrators who "know Postgre" or system administrators who "run RedHat". Why do the opinions of people who don't even know the name of the language (SmallTalk, LISP, ADA) matter?
Programmers do have to manage fine details occasionally. I look for people who can handle that.
Re:Don't be pompous
Matts on 2007-02-05T04:53:00
I'm just giving you my worldly advice. You're welcome to ignore it.
I know.HTM - gizza job. Re:Don't be pompous
chromatic on 2007-02-05T05:13:36
I do appreciate it. You've demonstrated you're smart and capable and dependable many times over. I'm not flipping your bozo bit if you miss a space sometimes.
It's more that I'm giving myself permission to use a really simple discriminator to see where I should spend my valuable arguin' time. More and more, it's not on the Internet.
Re:Don't be pompous
TheNomad on 2007-02-05T10:26:01
It's more that I'm giving myself permission to use a really simple discriminator to see where I should spend my valuable arguin' time. More and more, it's not on the Internet.You've only just found out that arguing with all comers on the Internet is a waste of time????
:)
Re:Don't be pompous
chromatic on 2007-02-05T19:04:17
I have to remind myself approximately once a week.
Re:Don't be pompous
Aragorn on 2007-02-05T08:07:54
Strange then, that mr. Kay talks about 'Smalltalk' instead of 'SmallTalk', and the ISO home of Ada standard spells it as 'Ada'.:-) Re:Don't be pompous
chromatic on 2007-02-05T09:39:24
Isn't it also strange that Red Hat's site spells it "Red Hat" or that Postgre isn't the name of a database?
Contrarily, I do have the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual.
Re:Don't be pompous
Aragorn on 2007-02-05T11:49:03
Maybe I misunderstood you. Did you mean that people who spell it 'SmallTalk' and 'ADA' get it wrong? (That'll teach me to do Monday-morning comments without having had coffee:-) Re:Don't be pompous
chromatic on 2007-02-05T19:03:04
Yes, that's exactly what I meant.
Re:Nonsense
chromatic on 2007-02-06T19:02:38
It all started making sense to me when I first saw someone refer to "Perl6 1.0.0".I was always under the impression that 6 was the version number, thus the first release will be Perl 6.0.0. I suppose I can see how some people consider the name of the language to be "Perl 6" such that it needs separate version numbers, but that seems strange to me (probably because I don't use Java and rarely use Solaris).
I hope that you will still discuss Perl\s?6 with me.Of course; you're demonstrably clueful on this and many other subjects. It's more of a discriminator for random ranty people than anything.
Re:Nonsense
Aristotle on 2007-02-07T07:55:13
I do think that Perl 6 really is an entirely different language. It’s Perl II, if you will, more so than it is Perl 6.x. It is Perl in spirit, but so different from the predecessor in so many aspects that it’s clearly a new generation, not just a new version.
Not sure which nomenclature should be adopted, though, since I lean on the side of good usage, like you.
Re:Nonsense
chromatic on 2007-02-07T20:56:46
I agree with the "new generation" idea, but the naming idea is pretty moot. If there's one thing that Larry really owns, in a moral sense if nothing else, it's the name "Perl" and the ability to say what is and isn't Perl.
Re:Nonsense
Crag on 2007-02-07T21:27:25
I quite agree. It's probably too late now, but I'd prefer if it were called Saphire or something (Perl, Quartz, Ruby, Saphire). I think a different name would have gone a long way to address a lot of misunderstandings and complaints about Perl 6. C++ is more like C than Perl 6 is like Perl 5. I suspect the Modula dialects are more like Pascal than Perl 6 is like Perl 5.On the other hand, in 10 years it won't matter. Perl 6 will have succeeded or not on its own merits, not based on its name.
