On 10/24/05, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:49:51 -0400, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > FEAR: Perl6 internals will be just as inaccessable as p5 > > paradox. Many people don't find perl5 inaccessible at all
Who? Do you know anybody who hacks the regex engine? > > FEAR: Perl6 will not be able to fix the stigma of "just a scripting > > language" or "line noise" > > perl5 has never been "just a scripting language" Yeah, but he's talking about the cultural stigma, which is definitely present. However, given the increasing number of high-level design constructus, I think that this fear will never realize itself. The only way it could is from the name "Perl", and once anybody uses it, it will go away. > My only current fear is that I won't live long enough to be able to use and > understand the full richness of what perl6 is going to offer me. > > (Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use > 'format', but I'm aware of the plan to make that `obsolete' as in: the > perl526 translator will dump core on those) I wonder how hard it would be to actually convert perl 5 formats to Perl6::Form. Having never used the former myself, I wouldn't really know the order of magnitude of this problem. Luke
