On Dec 11, 2003, at 3:27 PM, Tassilo von Parseval wrote: [..]
This is why Perl6 is on its way and promises to solve a lot of those[..]
problems. Sometimes something functional has to be torn down in order to
build something better.
Depending upon which day of the week it is, I am either excited to see perl6 come out, or I am loathesome to see it come out.
I went through much of that with the Perl5 transition as well. I was so stoked that 5.6.1 became the dafault for most of my base OS platforms, and was concerned that the cut over to 5.8 would mean full rebuilds of anything with XS in it... but then had the odd moment when something I thought was 'cool' and found that it worked in 5.8 but not in 5.6.1 made me giggle that things were clearly moving in the right direction...
You also, unfortunately, present a part of the ongoing problem with any open source solution that is seeking to maintain cross platform compatability, there comes a time when the heaving number of patches on top of patches make it soooo hard to maintain.
ciao drieux
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