in reply to OT? Pragmatic Perl

My personal view is that Perl 6 represents a case of second system effect. That opinion may be right or it may be wrong. It looks like it will be years before anyone can say, and that is an issue in itself. Another take on SSE

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Re^2: OT? Pragmatic Perl
by Eyck (Priest) on Sep 24, 2004 at 11:12 UTC
    Exactly,

    That's the whole point of this effect, Multics was so many years in preparation... and perl6 is positioned to do the same

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      OS/2? I remember looking at OS/2 just after Windows 3.0 came out. I liked it, even though it took 5+ minutes to boot. The reality was that I had already bought into the whole 3.0 fingered salute.....

      cheers

      tachyon

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