Erik Price wrote:
> linguistic scholars have noticed that
> throughout human history, there has
> always been a trend of languages
> diverging, rather than converging
awk, sed, and a mish-mash of useful
functionality converging into Perl
would be a counter-example.
The fear seems to be that Perl 6 will
FORK from Perl 5 (diverge).
I think that Perl 6 will EXPAND perl 5.
Sure, you'll have to learn some new
syntactical stuff, but Perl 5 will
only have a subset of the functionality
that will be in perl 6.
Greg
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived
it can, only as one who has seen its
brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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