Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| Peter Scott writes:
| : So, I wonder aloud, do we want to signify that degree of change with a more
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| : dramatic change in the name?
|
| I'm inclined to think that people will be more likely to migrate if
| they subconsciously think we're taking continuity into consideration.
| Which we are, albeit not at a syntactic compatibility level.
It seems to me that recently (the last two years or so) and especially with
6, perl is no longer the SAs friend. It is no longer a fun litle language
that can be easily used to hack out solutions to problems. It is now
(becoming) a full featured language, quite at the expense of its heritage.
When we moved from 4 to 5, so people thought we should continue developing
4 without all the "useless" new stuff, like OO and threads and etc. I
wonder more and more if they weren't right. I wonder if as 6 develops if
we shouldn't split off the old 4 syntax and have two languages.
-spp
