Don't mistake "what some random fool on the Internet" posts on Slashdot for an opinion with any force or meaning or intent. There are a lot of people who've never written a program in their lives who like to post there in programming discussions.
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Regrettably, there's no Statute of Limitations for the Court of Public Opinion. Lots of folks get crazy ideas in their head -- ideas which may even have been true at one time -- and those ideas stick. When Perl 6 comes out, there are still folks who are going to assume it's a scripting language. Hell, I constantly run into programmers who tell me that Perl can't do the things I'm doing every day.
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Remember though that there are over six billion people in the world and a few dozen million programmers, at most. I don't particularly care if Perl 6 is "intuitive" for a COBOL or Python or Intercal or C++ programmer. I care that it's useful and learnable for a non-programmer while powerful and usable for an experienced programmer.
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what made me a bit wonder was that are only few commets appeares to this subject on \. and osnews.
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