introspection (and Perl 6)

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 23 Jan 2008, at 18:51, Peter Corlett wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:40:03PM -0500, Jeff Anderson wrote:
> [...]
>> Amen to that. I have learned from recent experience that what I  
>> like is
>> not as important as writing code that fits in with the environment of
>> people I work with. I try to avoid extremes -- Java/COBOL on one  
>> side and
>> now Perl 6 on the other.*
>
> APL makes Perl look verbose. I note you can now get free APL  
> interpreters
> and fonts if you want to start writing those JAAHs.

I *still* call the perl '->' operator "gets" even though it's  
pointing the wrong
way.

Meh.

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Dave Hodgkinson
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