On Monday 25 June 2007 00:57:18 Hakim Cassimally wrote: > Releasing a language without a useful, easily installable library bundle > could quite reasonably be construed as a stupid business practice.
Of course. Yet some dozen years later, the argument for keeping interfaces such as File::Find (because sysadmins should learn all about closures and callbacks but can only understand global variables) and code such as CGI.pm (it was SelfLoader before SelfLoader was cool and *that* was a while ago) in the Perl 5 core has absolutely nothing to do with quality, ease of use, or suitability for the problem domain and everything to do with incidentally having been first and, thus, immediate evolutionary dead ends. -- c
