From Computerworld:
Q: What's the old saying, it's the sincerest form of flattery?A: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Q: Did you feel that way when you saw C#?
A: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, abused and ripped off was also in there just to some extent. Relieved actually was part of it.
Q: Relieved?
A: That it wasn't particularly creative.
Virtual machines and cross-language interfaces are in vogue at the moment. (They've been around in some sort or another since about 1978 from what I remember; the cross-language aspect is something of a newer wrinkle.)
Gosling's remarks beg the question: are we doing something creative with Parrot/Perl6? Or is it just a simple application of existing technique with no new ideas? And do Gosling's opinions really matter that much to us?
No, of course not. Not directly. But this is Perl. We live off of stealing ideas from elsewhere and repackaging them, sometimes in creative ways.
