in reply to With Fear and Wonder

I too have been fearful of the upcoming Perl 6 release. I don't want to completely relearn the language, and I do not wish that the easy to use Perl 5 syntax will change. However, I trust Larry Wall and the other Perl 6 developers will make a comparable (and hopefully better) language. These are the same people that have written the other versions of Perl, so I doubt they will wander far from Perl's current path. From what I have read so far, the changes that they are making are extremely good.

Peace, BlackFlag.

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Re: Re: With Fear and Wonder
by kappa (Chaplain) on Apr 04, 2002 at 14:48 UTC
    This is a kind of philosophical issue. You probably won't be successful as an IT person (read, computer geek) in the long run if you are not comfortable at learning and even relearning from scratch several times a year. I thought it over many times from the very moment I was presented with a chance to choose this occupation, this way of life. And that perpetual learning, eternal school excites me much :) I find the root of all computer-related fun in this very aspect!