At 08:35 -0500 2003.03.15, Wizard wrote: >This is a similar problem to what Apache2 has had. Apache2 is definitely a >superior product, but is so different from 1 that the adoption rate has been >somewhat slow. What the Perl6 developers need to do is to make sure that the >migration is as simple as possible, with tools, tutorials and hand-holding. >Like any other new product, it has to be sold. Just remember, there are >still large numbers of entities still happily using Cobol (a legacy language >when I was a lad in the early 80s ;-).
This somewhat misses my point. The lack of migration of many users should not be viewed as a problem, necessarily, but as a difference of opinion, a choice. The widespread view that people who stick with Perl 5 will be sticking with an old, crufty, slow, backward, legacy language is the very sort of thing that will help to ruin the Perl community. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
