On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 01:40:41PM +0000, Avleen Vig wrote: >> >> We could just ask people what the don't like about perl, or what >> they'd like to see change / improve. >> >> They'll probably rattle off a list of things which they like about >> other languages which they don't like in perl, but that's not >> necessarily a bad thing. It might show us the strengths in other >> languages that we lack? > > Hmmm. So, we go to Python people, and they gives a us a list of things > they don't like about Perl. We go back to our woodshop, and turn Perl into > Python. Then we go to the Java guys and ask them. And out next version of > Perl will look like Java.
Hmmmm. Sounds like a plan. Maybe we could go to some sed people and ask them and then some C, awk and the Bourne Shell people? -- Zbigniew Lukasiak http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/