I've created pugs/docs/quickref/fears, a list of Perl 6 fears. Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
If you don't have committer access, ask Autrijus for it, or just reply to this message. The current list of fears is: : Frequently heard Perl 6 fears : : Fears end in exclamation marks for extra drama and silliness. : : Later, we can add responses below each listed fear. For now, I'm mostly : collecting fears. Feel free to add responses, though. : : : FEAR: Perl 6 has too many operators! : : FEAR: I will never be able to type Unicode ops! : : FEAR: Unicode ops cannot be read by me! : : FEAR: My Perl knowledge will be useless! : : FEAR: All my existing code will have to be rewritten! : : FEAR: Perl 6 is hard to learn! : : FEAR: Perl 6 will never be released! : : FEAR: A language or VM this powerful can never be fast! : : FEAR: Perl 6 is not Perl! Perl 6 does not look like Perl! : : FEAR: The new features won't be used by people! : : FEAR: Perl 6 will not be used as much as Perl 5 was! : : FEAR: Junctions will be abused! : : FEAR: The development process will implode into a giant ball of ego and : misery! : : FEAR: Perl 6 will be too much like Haskell! : : FEAR: Perl 6 has too many features just for completeness, rather than : utility! : : FEAR: Implementing unnecessary features will delay development! : : FEAR: Perl 6 makes golf (and obfuscation) hard and thus ruin culture! : : FEAR: Perl 6 is made for big programs, not for oneliners and short : scripts! These fears were collected on IRC. Only if we know what people are afraid of, we can help people overcome it and accept Perl 6 for the programmer friendly language that it is. And perhaps some people are right. In that case, we can use this list to do something about it before it's too late. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
