RE: Perl, the new generation

[Peter Scott]

 > It's not so much that Perl shouldn't have data structures or modules.
 > I think what Stephen is saying (and he's not the only one) is that
 > the bare minimum amount of Perl you *must* know to be productive
 > is increasing. Either that, or we're giving the impression that
 > it's increasing. Many people don't want to get bogged down in how
 > the details of Unicode, upperclass level CS topics or Perl's unique
 > syntactical peculiarities to parse a damn log file (or find and
 > use a CPAN module that does it).

It doesn't look to me like the amount of Perl one needs to know to achieve 
a given level of productivity is increasing in volume or complexity at 
all.  What it looks like to me is that there are additional features being 
added which enable one to achieve greater levels of productivity and 
performance if one wants to learn them.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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