[VPM] Victoria.pm Meeting?

[Darren Duncan]

Abram sent this reply both to the list and to me directly, but the 
list copy didn't seem to work, hence I forward it to the rest of you. 
-- Darren Duncan

At 1:39 AM -0400 9/28/07, Abram Hindle wrote:
>Much of the syntax and ideas of perl/ruby/python are shared and they are
>  general purpose scripting languages. PHP is not general purpose and I
>wouldn't support its inclusion because then everything is about boring
>web stuff and not about neat things.
>
>abram
>
>Darren Duncan wrote:
>>  At 9:57 PM -0400 9/27/07, Abram Hindle wrote:
>>>  A controversial recommendation I have is to open up to Python and Ruby,
>>>  do all 3. They are both very similar to Perl and have a lot interest.
>>
>>  I am personally okay with that.
>>
>>  But what I would not do is open it to languages in general, in which
>>  case we should just use RCSS.
>>
>  > In particular, we should *not* open to PHP, nor Java, nor MS .*, nor C.*.