Re: date interface (was Re: perl6 requirements, on bootstrap)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:51 PM 8/1/00 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >3. It no longer has a unix specific flavour (PS I am not anti-unix in any
> >sense) so Mac, VMS and Windows users feel less confused.
>
>Did it get decided that we were *supposed* to make Unix and C programmers
>feel more confused and less at home with Perl?

I think we decided that perl would fix the things that make Unix and C 
programmers go "What moron was responsible for *that*?"

Besides, perl's audience has gotten far wider over the past few years. No 
reason for it to not adapt to the wider audience and draw from their 
experience as well.

                                        Dan

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