in reply to "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham

If there wasn't something stunningly bad about Perl, then why are so many people putting so much effort into Perl6, for almost 3 years now, with the end not in sight yet?

Perl6 isn't there because of v-strings or pseudo-hashes.

Abigail

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Re^2: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jun 18, 2004 at 22:09 UTC
    Perl6 isn't being developed because Perl5 is stunningly bad, but because developers have a vision for something Ever So Much More So. There's a lot of space between pie-in-the-sky and stunningly bad.

    Update: It's probably the Perl5 to Perl6 transition that he's talking about when he marvels at how rapidly it's changing. And that suggests that the "stunningly bad" ideas could well be proposed features of Perl6.

    We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.
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Re: Re: "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 29, 2003 at 09:30 UTC
    then why are so many people putting so much effort into Perl6

    Because they don't like Python?

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