(no subject)
Jun. 8th, 2005 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progI was amused to see this distillation of the origins of a certain computer language on one of its mailing lists:
It's even funnier because it's basically true, though if you ask him about it Jon will politely insist that it was just the one coffee cup, really.
I wish I could tell you more about what was happening with Perl 6, though. Apparently something interesting has been afoot via this "PUGS" thing, but I have zero reason to actually comprehend it at this time. I think that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daerr groks it, so I can just treat him as an external memory cache and access him when I need to. (So far he's tried to explain it to me my shoving a laptop screen full of alien syntax in front of my face at 2 a.m. during a recent visit to the sleep-inducing underground offices in WTVL. The obvious coolness and elegance of it failed to instantly flash-absorb into my brain. Maybe next time!)
Once upon a long time ago, Jon Orwant threw coffee cups and swore. And Perl 6 was born.
It's even funnier because it's basically true, though if you ask him about it Jon will politely insist that it was just the one coffee cup, really.
I wish I could tell you more about what was happening with Perl 6, though. Apparently something interesting has been afoot via this "PUGS" thing, but I have zero reason to actually comprehend it at this time. I think that
daerr groks it, so I can just treat him as an external memory cache and access him when I need to. (So far he's tried to explain it to me my shoving a laptop screen full of alien syntax in front of my face at 2 a.m. during a recent visit to the sleep-inducing underground offices in WTVL. The obvious coolness and elegance of it failed to instantly flash-absorb into my brain. Maybe next time!)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-06-09 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-09 02:22 am (UTC)Nothing like that ever happens when I throw coffee cups and swear.