"Michael R. Bernstein" wrote:
Jonathan Byron wrote:
The date of the press release on the merger of python and perl have made a few people wonder just how serious it is, not to mention the fact that the two languages are so dissimilar that merging them is like merging English and Chinese.
I am trying to find a polite way to say 'Duh!'.
This idea is so improbable, that not even the page on O'Reilly's site could make me blink: http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/
I mean, look at this code:
# copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with # while left_angle_right_angle: if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#": continue_next; } print dollar_underscore; }
Or this one:
while(@line = Sys::Stdin->readline()): continue_next if $line[0] =eq= "#": print @line; }
Bleh!
Michael Bernstein.
Wow, a language with both explicit and implicit block delimiting! Truely an idea whose time has come! I especially like starting a block with ":" and ending it with "}". Also, putting one line conditional code before the conditional statement is pure brilliance. I think I will rewrite Zope in Parrot. While I'm at it I think I'll add VBScript support server-side along with Frontpage Bots support. I'm thinking that using Bots could even make DTML obsolete! I will also add a few more frames to the management interface and use Active X form elements. I'll release it under the GPL of course! Just think of the possibilities! -- | Casey Duncan | Kaivo, Inc. | cduncan@kaivo.com `------------------>