Re: RFC 28 (v1) Perl should stay Perl.

[John Porter]

Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> =item Functional Programming
> 
> Just because Perl has a C<map> operator, this doesn't make it a
> functional programming language. Perl has always been squarely
> procedural, 


It has also been roundly object-oriented and rectangularly functional,
at least since perl5.

By your logic, the OO stuff should never have been added.


> ...let's not add the entirety of LISP and ML to the core.

I don't think anyone's proposing that; but I'll give you an argument
about it anyway.  :-)


> The CS types may love it, but I'm a programmer and I don't.

I'm both, and I think Perl would be Better for having it.


-- 
John Porter

        Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht.