I suspect that for many/most cases for which Perl5 does the trick, Perl5
will continue to the the best tool (and support for Perl5 is expected to
continue for the long term).
Perl 6 borrows some ideas from languages like Ruby (which itself borrowed
much from Perl) and seems to me a more fundament
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I just got finished looking over some of the stuff related to Perl6,
and now my brain hurts. :-( Just what will I be able to do better
with this (completely) new version? Run faster? Jump higher? It might
be cheaper for me to buy a pair of Keds.
I just got finished looking over some of the stuff related to Perl6,
and now my brain hurts. :-( Just what will I be able to do better
with this (completely) new version? Run faster? Jump higher? It might
be cheaper for me to buy a pair of Keds.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notr
