in the beginning...
>"you may call it 'expert-friendly' if you want." -- tom christiansen
>"so-called 'expert friendly' programming languages often wake up to
>find themselves befriended only by experts." --
the code name "omega" would be a fitting handle...after all, this will be
the last perl of all...i am obviously assuming perl 6 will not be still born.
within *three years* of its release, perl will be a byword in commercial
programming...non-commercial programming languages are scarcely
mentioned in public and seldom published. they retire to newsgroups.
>commercial should be interpreted here as "used to support the profit-
>driven activities of legitimate business enterprises"...obviously, there
>exist commercial users of perl... soon, that will no longer be the case.
>public should be interpreted as "profit-driven, non-academic people."
it is clear that your god had no choice, but to rewrite perl. the figurative
toilet bowl swishing (one imagines tim explaining the way of business
to larry) wall received after announcing that perl 5.x was the last word,
was also in fact the last straw. writing perl 6 was not, is not the answer.
>"the promise of perl was lost."
>"they are blinded by the illusion of power."
>"retribution awaits them - in the destruction of their cult."
good night...
yaphet
heretics of perl
brave new languages will feast on perl's rotting flesh...and on *cpan*.
>"in fact, they already are."
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