From: Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>
Subject: Re: Bye, bye?
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:49:23 +0100
Date: 2005-02-03T16:49:23+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360923.fGEqWSjcJk@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4202374f@news101.his.com
G. Vincent Castellano wrote:
> Wes Groleau wrote:
>> Sometimes, reading a perl book, I am surprised that it's
>> able to do something Ada-like (though not as pretty to
>> Ada-accustomed eyes).
>
> I remember hearing a rumour that Larry Wall seriously considered writing
> Perl 6
> in Ada. One of his quotes on the language:
>
> I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an
> infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada
> the typical infinite loop would normally be terminated by detonation.
Maybe he found out how to do it in C/C++:
for (;;)
{
}
Martin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-02 2:48 Bye, bye? Wes Groleau
2005-02-02 13:33 ` Frank J. Lhota
2005-02-03 4:19 ` Wes Groleau
2005-02-04 1:28 ` James E. Hopper
2005-02-04 3:46 ` Wes Groleau
2005-02-02 21:12 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-02-03 4:24 ` Wes Groleau
2005-02-03 4:32 ` Wes Groleau
2005-02-09 19:04 ` mheaney
2005-02-03 0:20 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-02-03 4:30 ` Wes Groleau
2005-02-03 5:54 ` Eric Jacoboni
2005-02-03 14:38 ` G. Vincent Castellano
2005-02-03 15:49 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2005-02-05 19:50 ` tmoran
2005-02-06 7:19 ` Martin Krischik
2005-02-06 19:43 ` Simon Wright
2005-02-06 20:00 ` Pascal Obry
2005-02-04 1:08 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-02-04 3:46 ` Wes Groleau
2005-02-04 3:48 ` Wes Groleau
2005-02-27 15:35 ` Paul Colin Gloster
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