in reply to 3 Criticisms of the Parrot Project for Perl 6

1. I think you are more likely to get good responses to these questions/criticisms if a) you state them as questions and not as criticisms b) you post them to the appropriate Perl 6 mailing list. While discussing Perl 6 is definitely appropriate on PM, I don't see that this is the *best* place for such discussions. I'm guessing the bulk of the people who can make intelligent arguments on behalf of the decisions made do not frequent PM enough to catch this. Maybe I'm wrong, we've certainly had some interesting new Monks join lately.

1.a. Maybe it would be a good idea for Perl Monks to get a new section for Perl 6? Where discussions like this and maybe links to other Perl 6 info would be gathered up... I'd volunteer to work on it, but I'm more likely to learn Ruby than to worry about Perl 6 in the next 12 months. :D

2. You're obviously familiar with the Perl 6 development sites and the community efforts surrounding same. Surely some of these questions are answered in either the Apocalypse/Exegesises, the RFCs, or on the discussion lists (especially those related to design/development)...

Just my two cents.
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Re: (ichimunki) Re: 3 Criticisms of the Parrot Project for Perl 6
by jepri (Parson) on Dec 04, 2001 at 07:16 UTC
    princepawn is unlikely to get good responses by posting on the perl mailing lists because these issues have already been beaten to death by the developers. If he bothered to read per6-internals and perl6-language he wouldn't have had a reason to post at all. Yes, I'm posting an advanced form of a RTFM (directed at princepawn, not you :).

    Don't be too quick to rule out chances that people involved in perl6 aren't here as well. Simon Cozens may or may not be but BrentDax certainly is - check out his posts on implementing the new regexp engine for some really good insight into how regexps work.

    I have also seen quite a few PerlMonks lurking on the lists and the bugtraq. This doesn't suprise me. We all want perl 6 here now, so quite a few of us are keeping an eye on what's coming our way.

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