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in thread Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6"

PHP 5 came with a standard OO system while Perl is still promoting dozens of competing CPAN frameworks a decade later.

Long may it continue to do so. I consider this a strength of Perl, not a weakness.

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Re^16: Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6"
by LanX (Saint) on Sep 02, 2019 at 22:26 UTC
    The learning curve is too steep.

    I remember reading this one perldoc about oop with cows mewing again and again (can't find it anymore), even bought the book Randall Schwartz published at O'Reilly's with that cows without having a clue after reading it thrice.

    This changed only after reading Damian's book on OO.

    At the same time you've already wrote several modules in Python by reading the docs (and ignoring the builtin problems of missing accessors)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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      I see both sides. I lean toward hippo’s view because I believe messy competition will trump all design except the most ingenious and the first draft is almost never ingenious and when it is… uh, perhaps it’s overly ambitious, *cough 6*, *cough*.

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        Unfortunately it's not the best design which succeeds but the one which is convincing the key multipliers in the market.

        Academics are such multipliers teaching classes for hordes of students.

        Most have no time for bless and dozens of competing approaches if they are offered a standard solution.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

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