[clug] [OT] Perl 6 and a new word/concept for me:

[jeff]

  On 30/07/10 8:11 AM, steve jenkin wrote:
> This caught my eye. Hadn't heard the term before. Even a real word :-)
> Thought the idea might resonate with a number of people on-list.
>
> "I am an Acmeist Hacker, which is to say that I only like to work on
> projects that serve many programming languages."
> <http://acmeism.org/>
>
This might be an attempt to break the sapir-whorf hypothesis ( 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity ) equivalent for 
programming languages or at a minimum to stop the use of one language 
painting you into a corner.

Jeff.