As a developer since a quarter century but only a few months in Perl I'm
closely following the process of creating Perl6. I'm exited and also
disappointed what's going on in this process. This morning I read an
article which is completely unrelated to Perl but might give some
insight why Perl is P
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I don't want to make Perl into Pascal, I mentioned it only to
drastically show the difference in readability.
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> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:34:41PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
> > - Make readability your main objective. Readability is possibly the
> > weakest part of Per
> - Make readability your main objective. Readability is possibly the
> weakest part of Perl.
>
> - Keep your eyes on modularity. Modularity is by far the best concept
> where complexity could be hidden.
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> - Don't forget usability. This is after all the point why people use
> Perl in the first
