At 4:12 PM +0000 1/28/02, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:44:19AM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote:
>> I'm going to just say this, and I ask that everyone who reads it take a
>> deep breath, count to 10 and then respond if you wish.
>>
>> I was reading Apoc 4 and while marveling at the elegence of what Larry's
>> doing to the language, I had an epiphany. Perl6 is simply not Perl.
>
>I remember long ago being very concerned about this very eventuality. I'm
>glad that it's not the case. Perl 6 is most definitely Perl.
And just as a data point for that...
Damian snagged some code from a few of us to do a 5->6 conversion on
for a TPJ article to address this very issue. The code I handed to
him had exactly no changes made. None. Could've run (and probably
will run) the thing as-is into perl 6 and it would've run just as
well as it did under perl 5.
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Dan
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