I read the "Notes from the initial brainstorming session" about the development of Perl 6. One thing specially captured my attention:

<quote> Tom Christansen made a series of observations recently on where Perl and Python differ, and where Python offers improvements over Perl. This list of points should be considered when designing the Perl6 language. </quote>

I like Python very much. I think it's a good language for scripting and prototyping, as Perl. If I'll have this possibility, I'd like to use Python in a freshmen class to teaching programming. I'm glad to see Perl community (I know, Tom Christiansen is not Perl community) looking at other languages to improve Perl. What do you think?

Note I know this could be seen as a heretic meditation. Of course, I don't want to flame.

See you
Larsen

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