Charles Reitzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth: *> *>Due to it's single implementation, Perl should be spared the worst. But, *>for that same reason, the advanced features could well weigh down the *>language as a whole in both interpretation and execution speed.
Perl 4 people said the same thing many moons ago :) *>Complexity is easy. Simplicity is damned difficult. I know and trust that *>the Perl language designers and developers all know this fact very *>well. But it doesn't hurt to remind them sometimes. My guess is that the *>kind of nattering that bothers you so much is exactly why Larry _does_ *>publish the "Apocalypsos". That, and he probably is sincere in his desire *>for a transparent process. Reminding them is one thing but I've watched the years of people 'reminding' them take their toll and it impedes progress. I'd like to see something I can work with before getting my panties in a twist as beta-testing an idea is hard and tends to add complexity rather than winnow out the bugs and fluff. It is the perl motto that 'no good deed shall go unpunished' that bothers me, not the process, as many seem to forget that much of it is unhelpful and does nothing for the morale of those who are far, far more masochistic than is really healthy. :) And if it's any comfort to you I hear they have a special cousel in an grumpy 80 year-old man :) e. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
