in reply to OT? Pragmatic Perl

The point is, perl6 is looking nothing like perl5, it looks like overdesigned language for CS students, not fit for real world, BUT, maybe, this is the best way to go?
Would you care to elaborate on that. You will be able to code perl6 in a perl5-ish way just as you can now code perl5 in a perl4-ish way. perl6 wouldn't exist if the Perl community didn't want what it has to offer.

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Re^2: OT? Pragmatic Perl
by Eyck (Priest) on Sep 24, 2004 at 11:26 UTC
    There is no singular 'Perl Community'.

    People that want this pragmatic perl I started using years ago are working on perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x,

    perl was created as a tool to do the job. perl6 will be language... and one can already see that it'll take years before we've got perl6 that we can use, and decades before we can dump perl5 the way we dumped perl4.

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      You still haven't said why perl6 isn't pragmatic i.e why do you think it won't let you 'do the job'. Perl 6 compiler now has its own mailing list, so perl6 isn't as far in the future as it used to be.

      And why the hurry to dump perl5?

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