Erm, perhaps I should give you folks the URL.
http://fyi.oreilly.com/2008/08/the-mind-of-damian-conway-scie.html
Cheers,
~Gary
Gary Johnson writes:
> Howdy h4x0rs,
>
> I suspect some of you out there are Perl fans, and if so (or not),
> you should definitely check out a recent OSCON interview with Damian
> Conway (the grand high jester and interlocutor of the Perl
> community), in which he talks about what he thinks we should be
> teaching in CS, how to be a great programmer, and what the heck is
> happening with Perl 6 development. It's all pretty slick stuff, so
> get after it.
>
> Happy hacking,
> ~Gary
>
> P.S. For my Lispnik brethren out there, pay attention to all the
> stuff he describes about dynamic typing with optional static
> typing, positional, named, and "slurpy" function parameters,
> support for functional programming styles, and dynamically
> typed OO. Umm, dude, maybe someone should tell him that all of
> these new Perl 6 features were implemented in Common Lisp back
> in the early 90s? Man, pg just never fails us. He's like the
> Nostradamus of the () community. ;)
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