> -- whereas Perl has > gotten a *bad* reputation from outsiders, who say the language is > completely incomprehensible.
To clarify: Perl5 has gotten quite a bit of flak for being opaque, write-only-read-never, whatever they want to call it. I am not _agreeing_ with these statements, nor should we argue whether or not they have merit. It's irrelevant. The only useful data point is that the statements _are_ being made, and that they are widespread. That points to a market problem that we must address if Perl6 is going to achieve substantial popularity: the issue of better introducing newcomers to the language, and reducing the learning curve *very significantly*. That, in turn, implies significant changes to the documentation strategy of Perl5, because Perl6 is going to be an even more complex language. As difficult as it may be, we need to document Perl6 from the standpoint of people who don't know it, who have never used Perl before, and are quite possibly profoundly stupid. MikeL
