On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Gabor Szabo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jason Elbaum <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Of course, Larry also argues that languages should not be designed for >>> the convenience of newbies. A language is learned once and used many >>> times; the initial investment in learning it is amortized over time. >>> So I don't think he has much sympathy for complaints that particular >>> features confuse beginners. >> >> Good call, IMHO. > > But then again he did decide to make sigils invariant in Perl 6 as > the sigil change was considered a hard thing for beginners to learn.
He did decide to do that, but I don't know that that was the (only) reason for his decision. > Gabor > _______________________________________________ > Perl mailing list > [email protected] > http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl > -- Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> http://gaal.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
