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. ;)