On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:04, Simon Cozens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aaron Sherman) writes:
> > `` gets used an awful lot > > But that's in Perl 5, which is a glue language. I'm not sure I fully agree with that. Perl 5 *can* be a glue language, and so can Perl 6. They are not terribly distinct in that way. There may be OTHER purposes that Perl 6 is more suited to (quite a few I hope, or this is all just silly), but for existing glue-like tasks, I think Perl 6 will continue to serve the same valuable role. The point was made that Perl 5 doesn't use backticks much, so they should be huffmanned out. I posted a counter to the assumption. Nuff said. -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith "It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback
