On 02/23/2011 02:10 AM, Frank S Fejes III wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Moritz Lenz <mor...@faui2k3.org> wrote: > >> We can't be everybody's darling, as much as we would love to. > > That's a fair statement, however do consider that perl5 is still a > darling for many system administrators and command-line warriors who > have long since left awk and sed far behind and never looked back. In > this use case, perl5 still rules, and I would suspect that you > wouldn't want to simply throw away these users.
That's correct. But those users chose Perl because they get stuff done with it, not because it's a small language (and it's not). > My (admittedly > limited) experience with rakudo leads me to believe that the one-liner > or power-tool usage we've come to expect with perl5 may simply not > exist in perl6. As Gabor points out, they haven't been implement yet, but they will be. Cheers, Moritz
