On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 06:36 am, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:32:31 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>
>>The famous Perl coder Allison Randal writes about why Perl is not dead
>>(it's just pining for the fjords *wink* ) and contrasts the Perl 5/6 split
>>to Python 2/3:
>
> A sha
Perl 6 tried to acheive to much, and by delay and confusion lost the enthusiasm
of the community behind it Perl 6 and the at that time robust Perl 5 community
who saw it as the future, when that future waned so did their's.
Perl 6 should have just done what the community wanted at that time, in
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:32:31 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
>The famous Perl coder Allison Randal writes about why Perl is not dead (it's
>just pining for the fjords *wink* ) and contrasts the Perl 5/6 split to
>Python 2/3:
A shame Allison doesn't frequent these groups. I would have a few
questio
The famous Perl coder Allison Randal writes about why Perl is not dead (it's
just pining for the fjords *wink* ) and contrasts the Perl 5/6 split to
Python 2/3:
[quote]
The single biggest thing we didn’t anticipate is that the “community rewrite
of Perl” has, in fact, turned out to be a community
