Re: My Strategy for Perl6

Your reply somehow seemed to me the most insightful of all in this thread.

It got me wondering if we're gonna end up divided into those who have understood & embraced currying, rules, junctions and the like and those who continue using good ol' Perl.

"Perl6 - your way to ensure job security". Haha, only serious.

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Re: Re: My Strategy for Perl6 by TimToady (Parson) on Mar 22, 2004 at 17:53 UTC
We already have those two different sets of people happily using Perl 5. I don't see how Perl 6 is going to be much different on that subject. As for PL/I, it might actually have succeeded had it been an open source language. But PL/I was too complicated to reimplement in an age where reimplemention was the only way to port it. Not that I like PL/I all that much. As far as I know, Perl only borrowed one feature consciously from PL/I, which is the ability to iterate over a list of values. In many respects PL/I was not a well-integrated language, and it also didn't have the benefit of several decades of language research to draw on. PL/I did most things in an almost right way, from a modern perspective.	[reply]

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Re: Re: My Strategy for Perl6
by TimToady (Parson) on Mar 22, 2004 at 17:53 UTC

As for PL/I, it might actually have succeeded had it been an open source language. But PL/I was too complicated to reimplement in an age where reimplemention was the only way to port it.

Not that I like PL/I all that much. As far as I know, Perl only borrowed one feature consciously from PL/I, which is the ability to iterate over a list of values. In many respects PL/I was not a well-integrated language, and it also didn't have the benefit of several decades of language research to draw on. PL/I did most things in an almost right way, from a modern perspective.

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