Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

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Abigail wrote:
> 
>>Well, I guess BitKeeper is right - whitespace matters in Makefiles, Python 
>>scripts and ASCII art.
> 
> 
> And don't forget perl6.  (HATE! HATE! HATE! perl6 is one language I won't
> code in - for exactly this reason).
> 

I'm not very knowledgable about Perl, but I thought Perl 6 had those 
metaprogramming capabilities from another planet, and you could make it look 
like whatever you wanted (including Perl 5), and this would solve all syntactic 
problems forever, and I wanted to read about it just out of curiosity. So I 
thought you could also tell it that whitespace didn't matter.

Did I get it all wrong?

P.S. I think that people who truly hate Perl miss one point - most people behind 
it and using it have really nice attitude and good, practical intentions. Which 
is terrific compared to the spirit of, say, C++ (the boost kind, the system of 
values praising 80-line "generic" max implementations). So all the bad Perl code 
I've come across, which actually made me avoid the language, couldn't make me 
really hate it.

• Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat. Abigail 13:32 on 22 Dec 2006
  • Yossi Kreinin 13:56 on 22 Dec 2006
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• Jonathan Stowe 13:57 on 22 Dec 2006
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