At 01:52 PM 1/28/2002 -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: >From: Brent Dax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Aaron Sherman: > > # > > # I think the first guy that gets hired to maintain Perl6 code, > > # and think "hey, I know Perl, no sweat" will disagree with > > # you. > > > > I disagree. He'll see stuff he doesn't understand and try to > > consult perldoc on it, at which point he'll realize that he's > > working with Perl 6. Then he'll run out, get Camel IV, read > > it, and go back to work. Programmer is working with a better > > version of language, program is fixed, and ORA made fifty > > bucks. Everybody's happy. :^) > >Perhaps. Or perhaps he'll be like our company's lead C++ developers. They >liked Perl4 well enough for a certain problem domain, saw some Perl5 code... >and have tried to stay away from it ever since. > >Perl6 isn't going to make everyone happy.
I have a hard time believing those C++ guys are really Perl lovers; I'ver never spoken to a Perl fan that didn't have dreams of a making the language even better than it already is; better OO in Perl, etc. Maybe they just have a huge unwieldy Perl4 app they don't wish to port. -Melvin
