in reply to Re^4: OT? Pragmatic Perl
in thread OT? Pragmatic Perl

A perl5 programmer moving to a perl6 shop probably has as much of a learning curve ahead of them as a perl5 programmer moving to a python shop (or a python programmer moving to a perl6 shop for that matter).

Any programmer moving to a new shop has a learning curve ahead of him. The language, libraries, tools, and idioms are merely the building blocks of vocabulary with which developers write their stories. Learning the syntax and rules of Perl 6 isn't the tricky part. Learning how to put sentences and paragraphs together with the existing work is -- and that's true of any language and any shop.

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Re^6: OT? Pragmatic Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2004 at 06:35 UTC
    sigh

    I fear I haven't made my point at all well. I have no problem with perl6, or with learning perl6. I have a problem with this node which brushes aside the real costs associated with moving to perl6 with a little handwaving about how little needs to be done to make perl5 code run in perl6 (which has *nothing* to do with the costs of switching to perl6, imho).

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