An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 23, 2015 21:59 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice) by rsidd
Parent article: An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

> Ok, so π is built in -- is every conceivable required irrational also built in? e I would guess, but what about the golden ratio, the Euler-Mascheroni constant, etc etc? What about physical constants like the electronic charge, Planck's constant, etc, which are quantities measured to some accuracy and not exact fractions?

Why do you hold Perl 6 to an absurd standard here but languages like Javascript, PHP and Python get a silent free pass?