New Perl 6 Homepage

Post by vorg » Tue, Oct 06, 2015, 10:26 PM UTC

smoyer wrote: post #85

Mithaldu wrote: post #78

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I don't think it contributes to the conversation to point out that when inexperienced-by-trade people (managers typically don't code) observe inexperienced-by-laziness people (devs who don't learn how to write maintably in any language), they walk away with impressions that have zero correlation to reality. Especially when they conflate two completely different languages to boot. There's nothing to take away here oth…

The parent's question was whether a more enterprise-like web-site would help with Perl6 adoption - I simply said (for our organization) that the answer was no and included a brief description of why that was the case. In many cases, Java is still considered THE enterprise language. Other languages have invaded that enterprise dominance by running on the JVM. This includes languages like Scala (which was designed for…

Post by smonff » Wed, Oct 07, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

Zikes wrote: post #80

kbenson wrote: post #75

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Larry didn't say it should be feminine, nor did he imply it. He also didn't say masculinity is misogyny. At most he called for something androgynous. I think to interpret his statements otherwise is projecting. > As is the idea that aggression is a purely masculine trait I didn't say it was a purely masculine trait, but to ignore the clear association between masculinity and aggression in many cultures is to ignore r…

He literally says his vision for the logo is to discourage misogyny in the parent post: > I also take it as a given that we want to discourage misogyny in our community. All I want to know is what does the one have to do with the other? What does a butterfly logo have to do with the concept of sexism towards women? That's it. That's my question. I have no idea how to state it more simply. Someone suggested that "disc…