Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-13 Thread Thomas Wittek
chromatic schrieb: > On Thursday 03 May 2007 03:06:43 Andrew Shitov wrote: >> What is nedded is a very simple step: > Contributors. And to attract contributors, you have to have a convincing vision. I'm not sure, if the (current) Perl6 specs are convincing enough to attract the developers out ther

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-13 Thread Moritz Lenz
Thomas Wittek wrote: > chromatic schrieb: >> On Thursday 03 May 2007 03:06:43 Andrew Shitov wrote: >>> What is nedded is a very simple step: >> Contributors. > > And to attract contributors, you have to have a convincing vision. > I'm not sure, if the (current) Perl6 specs are convincing enough to

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-13 Thread chromatic
On Sunday 13 May 2007 15:42:30 Thomas Wittek wrote: > What makes Perl hard to read is the excessive use of special characters > (/\W/). It also makes Mandarin and other ideographic languages impossible to read. As evidence I admit that, though I am very smart, *I* can't read them. (Try to ignor