In Apocalyse 6 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/03/07/apocalypse6.html Larry Wall explains how subroutines are going to work in Perl 6. I think this is the straw that broke the camel's back. I think this is the worst case of "second system syndrome" I have ever seen (See Jargon file e.g. at http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/s/second-system_effect.html ) and I quote: "When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an elephantine feature-laden monstrosity."
I think the language design shows too much influence of "Evil Damian". I want "good Damian" to work with Larry el al. to reduce the complexity of the language. Or (shudder) a subset of the language to be defined. Please advise me as to how to proceed. Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steven Tolkin steve . tolkin at fmr dot com 617-563-0516 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. V8D Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
