The Perl language has been my personal solitary respite from "the horrors of PHP," which forced me to (mechanically) change thousand of source-files in an existing application just to accommodate the apparently-arbitrary preferences of the language implementors – who, for example, "deprecated" a set of regular-expression functions only to re-introduce the exact same thing but with the parameters reversed. No, you Perl people really don't understand how good you have it to be able to say use DBI; or any other database-interface library of your personal choosing. And you certainly don't appreciate use Moose;!

The sheer brilliance of Perl is that it is actually minimalistic. But this also means that it is entirely dependent upon "its enormous and diverse CPAN." Nothing actually matters more than that one hundred percent of that library must run, precisely as it does now, and with no source-code modifications required. Because, (uniquely) in the Perl world, "CPAN is 'the language.'"

And that, of course, is exactly what the purveyors of the "Perl-6 stillbirth" never completely understood. Maybe now their successors will go back to their roots, and of course we're pleased to skip a digit if that's what it takes to get the improvements that we actually want ...

In reply to Re: Announcing Perl 7 by Anonymous Monk
in thread Announcing Perl 7 by marto

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