On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 01:52:13PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: : :From: Brent Dax [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] :> Aaron Sherman: :> # :> # I think the first guy that gets hired to maintain Perl6 code, :> # and think "hey, I know Perl, no sweat" will disagree with :> # you. :> :> I disagree. He'll see stuff he doesn't understand and try to :> consult perldoc on it, at which point he'll realize that he's :> working with Perl 6. Then he'll run out, get Camel IV, read :> it, and go back to work. Programmer is working with a better :> version of language, program is fixed, and ORA made fifty :> bucks. Everybody's happy. :^) : :Perhaps. Or perhaps he'll be like our company's lead C++ developers. They :liked Perl4 well enough for a certain problem domain, saw some Perl5 code... :and have tried to stay away from it ever since. : :Perl6 isn't going to make everyone happy.
Until you start running their code on parrot, or compile it to Perl bytecode. :-) Darn, nasty thoughts out loud again. Casey West -- "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
