Re: Perl Implementation Language

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:40:31PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Are there any better reasons than "It would be nice?"
> 
> Can there *be* a better reason than "It would be nice"? Seriously,
> niceness is a damned fine goal.

No, it isn't. Practical wins over nice any day. Fast probably wins over nice,
too. Just because something's easy to code, that doesn't mean we should code
it, or all perl6 will do is print "hello world".

Sheesh, it's going to be a wonder if we get that far.

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