On Monday 18 October 2004 01:21, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 02:22:29PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I wrote a critique of where Perl 6 is heading. It was published in > > Freshmeat: > > > > http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1339/ > > Where you say, in part: > > Why Perl 6 is Bad? > > No one Understands Perl 6 > > Having read this title, you are probably thinking to yourself: "So > you don't understand Perl 6. What makes you think everyone else > doesn't? How do you justify this inductive thinking?" Let me tell > you a little story: > > One day, I met with a good friend of mine (whom I highly appreciate > both as a person and as a software engineer), and I asked him if he > reads the Apocalypses. He said he does, but that he doesn't > understand them. This eventually made me realize that I also read > them, and also did not understand many things. And neither he nor I > are particularly stupid people. And here's an interesting quote from > the famous Weblog "Joel on Software": "Whenever somebody gives you a > spec for some new technology, if you can't understand the spec, > don't worry too much. Nobody else is going to understand it, either, > and it's probably not going to be important." (Read more at the link). > > If you can say this with a straight face, then you must not have > listened to the rationale for Perl6, nor heard the four years' worth of > reiteration of that rationale. > > No, no one knows how to program in Perl 6. And that will continue to be > the case for another few years. And, no, this is not a problem.
You are mistaking two things. When I said no-one understands Perl 6, I meant that no-one understands the subset of Perl 6 that was presented by Larry Wall in the Apocalypses, and was considered a _final subset_ of the Perl 6 functionality. I wasn't refering to the language as a whole as it is yet unkown. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ Knuth is not God! It took him two days to build the Roman Empire.