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peter@xxxxxxx.xxx (Peter da Silva) writes: >> "A good language allows people to say "pshaw" and "ain't" and >> "Barbara Streisand", no matter how unpleasant the words may sound. > > Alas, Perl only allows you to say "pshaw" and "ain't" and "Barbara > Streisand" because they've been designed into the language... and > it doesn't let you say "strooth" or "cobber" or "gruntbugly" because > the Academie Perlais hasn't thought of those. The teachers and users > of the language have little or no hand in its evolution because it's > guided from afar like French, rather than being allowed to grow like > English. > > It reminds me of Terry Pratchet's Guild of Joculators, with its hundred > approved puns, "see, what a flexible language, Perl 6 allows you to > say 'marry, nuncle' as well as 'forsooth'"... Hmmm... the design of Perl 6 seems to imply that it's going to be rather more flexible than that; the macro stuff seems to imply that if you can write parser rules for it, it can go in. In theory you can completely replace the Perl 6 parser for a module or two in favour of whatever you prefer (but it's probably easier to target Parrot directly in those cases).There's stuff above here
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