RE: Perl, the new generation

[David Grove]

> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:55:36AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>
> > If you talk that way, people are going to start believing it.
> [snip]
>
>       Some of us are are talking that way because we already
>       beleive it.  You can't make the transition from Attic
>       Greek to Koine without changing how people fundamentally
>       view their language.  Apocalypse two made me a believer.

The changes are beautiful. It's calling it "Perl" and relying on subliminal
pursuasion to ask users to consider it the same that bothers me. That's a
very Microsoftish tactic.

To me, any change, regardless of how small or great it may be, that alters a
language in a way that will require maintenance to come into "standard", is
not a change, but a fork. (Regardless of translators. I'm afraid that this
will be as much vapourware as B::.)

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