Re: Perl, the new generation

[Larry Wall]

David Grove writes:
: "A slow transition" may be a catchphrase nowadays, but with Perl 5 stagnant,

Perl 5 is far from stagnant--please don't bend the truth to fit your
points.  My impression is that there's quite a bit more constructive
activity on p5p than there was a year ago.

: Unless Perl 6 is capable of parsing and running that 99.9% (or higher) of
: Perl 5 scripts originally foretold, I foresee a far worse outcome for Perl 6
: than has happened for an almost universally rejected 5.6 and 5.6.1.

There you go again, as Uncle Ronnie used to say.  Excessive hyperbole
will cost you sympathetic readership.

Nobody ever foretold 99.9%, as far as I recall.  I surely didn't.

And 5.6 is being adopted, albeit with reasonable caution.

Larry