You are advocating a clean break from backwards compatibility?

I'm curious, how will this new language compete against JS, Ruby and Python? Will it start with a dominant market position like PHP?

Why wouldn't it share the niche fate of Perl 6 or cperl or ... (name a branch)?

I think if you want a break, it would be far easier to implement a Perlish syntax on top of Javascript to succeed.

I agree with you that most discussions are fruitless because most players only see their own use cases and fail to speak a common "language" (sic ;)

My take on this is to keep one language (read "engine") which is tailored by "master" pragmas to those needs.

Perl's selling point being:

"yes it's deeper than the specialists like bash or python, ...

... but you don't need to learn different languages to fill all these use cases" °

See also The Camel Paradox

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) /and if you stick to your niche's master pragma it's even not that much more difficult.

In reply to Re: Amicable divorce (The Camel Paradox) by LanX
in thread Amicable divorce by ribasushi

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