At 01:01 PM 8/1/00 -0400, Michael Mathews wrote:
>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.
Let's also not forget that Unix (or <insert your favorite OS here>) got
some things just fundamentally wrong. (Signals anyone? :) It is, after all,
software, and all software sucks by definition.
Extracting out the Good Bits while tossing the Bad Bits and building an
abstraction layer's not a bad thing. I'd quite like to see this happening.
Dan
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