I'm going to burn in hell.

jesse on 2005-09-22T04:34:01

jesse@hualien:~/perl6 $ mv ruby-1.8.3 perl-6.0.0 jesse@hualien:~/perl6 $ find . -type f |xargs perl -pi -e's/ruby/perl6/g' jesse@hualien:~/perl6 $ find . -type f |xargs perl -pi -e's/RUBY/PERL6/g' jesse@hualien:~/perl6 $ find . -type f |xargs perl -pi -e's/Ruby/Perl6/g' jesse@hualien:~/perl6 $ find . -name \*ruby\* |xargs -n 1 perl -e '$perl = $ruby = shift @ARGV; $perl =~ s/ruby/perl6/; system("mv $ruby $perl\n")' jesse@hualien:~/perl6/perl-6.0.0 $ ./configure jesse@hualien:~/perl6/perl-6.0.0 $ make

jesse@hualien:~/perl6/perp-6.0.0 $ ./perl6 --version perl6 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i686-linux]

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[snark]

kcr on 2005-09-22T05:02:39

Gosh, us python bigots probably would just say "that's about right".

And Unicode?

nicholas on 2005-09-22T08:43:18

And what's the Unicode support like?

Welcome to the Party!

ziggy on 2005-09-23T03:01:56

Why is it that every fall, someone comes up with the idea to punt on Perl6 and just dub Ruby the New and Improved Perl6!?

Perl6 kicked off in July 2000. The Ruby-as-Perl6 started to surface by mid-to-late August 2000, (maybe September or October; my memory is a little fuzzy tonight). IIRC, Larry was only half joking when he proposed the idea in the early days of the project.

Re:Welcome to the Party!

jesse on 2005-09-23T05:49:18

See, the difference is that I was entirely joking when I consed up that shell script. (Though that output isn't contrived.)

Think of it more as social commentary on the "ruby as perl6" school of thought than anything else.

--Jesse (Officially part of the problem since earlier this year)