RE: Perl, the new generation

[Peter Scott]

At 12:47 PM 5/10/01 -0400, David Grove wrote:

>Unless Perl 6 is capable of parsing and running that 99.9% (or higher) of
>Perl 5 scripts originally foretold, I foresee a far worse outcome for Perl 6
>than has happened for an almost universally rejected 5.6 and 5.6.1.
>
>Fun is fun. But work costs money, guys. And if you cost people money with a
>free tool, repercussions could be bad not just for Perl but for free
>languages, among which Perl has heretofore been the leader of the pack.
>
>Actually, Peter, I was getting very, very close to writing this anyway.

I am not attempting to make nearly so contentious a point (or 
points).  This may be better off in a separate thread.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
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