>'Scuse me, but I'm a bit puzzled by this whole 'What is Perl' thing. My
>understanding of the rewrite was that it was primarily to provide a
>cleaner implementation than the current 'worn out' one, and to remove
>some of the more egregious features, e.g. the over-reliance on globs in
>some places, move some functionality out of the core and into modules
>etc. I certainly didn't expect a wholesale language redesign to be on
>the cards. After all, I *like* the current language features (well,
>mostly). I *like* the punctuation characters (they tell me what sort of
>thing I am looking at). What other language allows such poetry as
>"@{$hash}{@keys} = @values"? I humbly submit that perl without the
>perlisms is not perl.
You're probably right, on every single point.
I did the "What is Perl?" thing to focus folks on what this was
really for, since many seem to be trying to create a new and different
language now. And you've said all that here just fine.
--tom
