From: Melvin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > 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.
They were C++ lovers not Perl lovers. Perl was just a tool in their chest. In their minds Perl4 was a simple elegant swiss army knife for data munging. Perl5 was a new version of the same tool, but with too many extra whiz bang features to suit their fancy. But hey, Bryan Warnock said it best: > >Perl6 isn't going to make everyone happy. > > That's right, it isn't. Nor should it strive to. This isn't Aesops fable about "The Miller, His Son, And Their Ass". http://www.literature.org/authors/aesop/fables/chapter-281.html
