On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:30:29PM -0500, Felix Gallo wrote: > > 2. "perl 6 is a lot cleaner than perl 5". It's also much, much > larger than an already very large language. I've been programming > and evangelizing Perl in organizations small and gigantic since > 4.03x, and my eyes just glaze over at all the unnecessarily > surfaced complexity bound to make reading other people's programs > finally, at last, literally impossible: > > http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.html > > I'm not going to use perl 6.
I doubt anyone will. We'll all be using subsets. Of course the subset that I use will probably be different from the subset used by the authors of the modules I'll be using. That's a potential headache but not a huge problem. I predict a burst of wild creativity from authors enjoying the exploration of all the wonderful tools in the perl6 toolbox. Then, after a year or three of fun, sawn off limbs, and bloodied fingers (and after a few good books get published) most of us will converge towards a common subset of accepted good practice. But we'll know that our new toolbox of choice is far deeper than our old one and will cope with a far wider range of projects. Tim.
