[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The third group that won't be happy with Perl 6 are those who program > in a limited subset of Perl - so limited, in fact, that they will > most likely be bitten by minor changes in the language, without the > benefit of experiencing the major improvements that those changes > allowed. These people are, by and large, not professional > programmers, but folks for whom Perl is a simple and powerful tool in > their jobs, and it will drive them crazy when their toolkits and > recipes stop working. I should know, I support multitudes of these > people.
Just out of curiosity, what percentage of Perl users would you say fall into this category? And should follow-ups to this go, perhaps, to [EMAIL PROTECTED]? John A
