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More answers:

1) Yes. But I'm not telling. :-P

2) Keen! I usually find myself turning back to C, but I figure that's just the universe being amusingly perverse at my expense.

3) I don't think the speed increases will, in and of themselves, lead to Cool New Things, but rather (along with the native calling interface) allow people to write less C code. While paradoxically making it easier for them to write C that interfaces to parrot if they want.

The bit that'll change how perl's used is more due to language changes in perl 6 making B&D style programming easier (which many people do like in larger projects) and easier integration with other languages running on parrot.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Questions about Perl 6
by ergowolf (Monk) on Mar 25, 2003 at 20:40 UTC
    Elian:
    "The bit that'll change how perl's used is more due to language changes in perl 6 making B&D style programming easier (which many people do like in larger projects) and easier integration with other languages running on parrot."

    This may be a silly question but, what is B&D programming?
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      "Bondage and Discipline", a mildly off-color reference to... other things. Basically it's programming with less programmer freedom and more restrictions on what's allowed and not allowed. It's the stuff that makes 30 line admin scripts a pain, but modules and 100K line applications easier to manage.
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        It should be noted that B&D can become a self fulfilling prophecy in that its absence from a 100k line app might reduce it to a 40k line one. But that's the age old debate..

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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