В Чтв, 29/11/2007 в 07:18 +0100, James Fuller пишет: > On Nov 28, 2007 8:46 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 10:59:30 James Fuller wrote: > > > I do not nec. agree with 'a particular grammer is not' part of the > > > core ... if that grammar is so common to every problem (like regex is) > > > then why not include it? > > > > Because it's not necessary for getting and installing other extension > > modules. > > > > The criterion for including a module in the core is "Is this necessary to > > get > > and install other modules?" not "Why not include this module?" > > I read this statement as saying that perl's core main purpose is to > enable extension versus be a useful programing language ? > > feels like we are externalizing what I would call build artifacts of a > language .... e.g. a distro of Perl 6 should be easy to adopt and easy > to use immediately ..... I would like to see some basic level of XML > support in this distro. > > I understand that there can be different distros customized to certain > problem domains, but as explained I see XML as common to all those > problem domains.
But is it? I'm sure you can easily find lots of people using Perl professionally without any need of an XML parser/processor. Just like database or web libraries. Why do you consider XML something essential without also insisting on all the other technologies people use in Perl?
