On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:41:15PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Stephen P. Potter writes:
It seems to me that recently (the last two years or so) and
especially with 6, perl is no longer the SAs friend. It is no
longer a fun litle language that can be easily used to hack out
On Wed, 16 May 2001, David Grove wrote:
For me, it's the bare minimum amount of Perl you must *use* to be productive
that I see increasing in our plans and discussions. I'm afraid of Perl
turning into a verbose monstrosity to please verbosity addicts of languages
whose only point of
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:14:57AM -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
afraid of, and to express your concerns about it. However, the way that
you chose to do that (Once quick and dirty dies, Perl dies.) implies
that the only thing that Perl is good for is q-n-d
A veritable lesson in logic! Here's an
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 15:32, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Bryan C. Warnock writes:
I think the biggest fear isn't that Perl is going to grow out of its
niche, but that it's going to outgrow it. It's great that Perl has been
able to expand to be so many things to so many people, but not at
Dan == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan People think they *must* know all the core bits of a language, and
Dan they think that consists of all the stuff we ship with perl. (And,
Dan let's face it, we ship a *lot* of stuff with perl) It's like you're
Dan not allowed to know only a part
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote:
Dave Storrs writes:
SARCASM=EXTREME
Everyone, please try to stop the downhill descent of the conversation.
This is not just Dave, but others in the thread too.
For the record, the original post in this sequence came from David
