Almost one year ago, I posted similar opinion on perlmonks. But now, I
realize I made a mistake most of people made, to avoid knowing, learning new
things. ;)
as a sysadmin since 2000, I definitely need to handle many small tasks also,
a script for fetching files, a script for showing figure, a sc
On Tue, 2011-22-02 at 11:48 -0500, Mason Kramer wrote:
> Maybe we just need to lay off of the cute one liners and * operator abuse
> when we demo Perl 6. My guess is that those one liners are not nearly as
> impressive to most workaday coders as the type system, MMD, grammars,
> private data, and
I don't grant the premise. Perl 6 is less complex than Perl 5. Number of
operators is not remotely a measure of complexity. Neither is "size of the
interpreter at runtime". "Number of things that the language does for you
in a standardized way" is actually a measure of simplicity, not complexity
