Re: What is Perl?

[Michael Mathews]

As far as Perl being an offspring of Unix I think that's great if it is in
meant **in spirit**. But any opportunity for Perl6 can make things more
understandable to the average programmer vs. the average Unix user should be
taken advantage of. The "unlink()" example is a good one. Now that Perl is
thriving on Mac and Win this sort of Unix-speak seems out-of-place. In spite
of where Perl came from I don't think we should feel like we can't grow the
language into something easier.

--Michael