in reply to Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade

The most beautiful flowers usually take the longest to blossom.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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Re^2: Perl 6 - I hope it won't take a decade
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 18, 2006 at 15:29 UTC

    Bad analogy.

    Let's just hope it beats chusquea abietifolia into bloom :)


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      I thought it was a pretty good analogy myself. I was talking about beautiful flowers as the first criteria, not length of time. Your example uses length of time as first criteria, and I have to agree that if Perl6 takes 200 years to blossom, it will probably smell bad. :-)

      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

      Do not mistake a necessary condition for a sufficient one. He wrote:

      The most beautiful flowers usually take the longest to blossom.

      not

      The flowers that take the longest to blossom are usually the most beautiful ones.

      ;-)