Feh - I really need to get on gmail's case for providing a keystroke for "Reply to All".
Rob ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nate Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 21, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Re: $1 change issues [was Re: syntax for accessing multiple versions of a module] To: Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rob- >>BTW, C and PHP both use -> "still". > > That's because PHP is a Perl templating engine that got too big for > its britches. (http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/An-Introduction-to-PHP/) Hah, that's a funny way to look at it. Although, PHP forked back in 1997, reading the article. There's alot of stuff it does differently nowadays, some better, some worse. >>Anyways, you can listen or not listen to those of us from real, large, >>corporate environments. I'm just trying to temper the enthusiasm for >>many of the real improvements in Perl 6 with some of the real costs - >>which are largely being ignored as "no big deal". > > I think YOU forget that nearly everyone else on this list, including > @Larry, has worked in large corporate environments. My understanding > of the response has been "Yes, there might be issues. They are all > solveable with a little elbow grease." And, frankly, you can run every > P5 program under Perl6. I'm not seeing what the problem is. Fair enough. Maybe I'm just a whiner. That's possible. But, I'm on the cusp of a major new outing, namely [snip]. The point is, I don't like the idea of having to relearn a ton of stuff midway thru the 5+ year product cycle of [snip]. So I'll probably end up choosing a different language for the team to use, which is too bad. -Nate P.S. I didn't post this to the list, because you didn't
