On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:57:10AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
> On 10/24/05, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:49:51 -0400, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > FEAR: Perl6 internals will be just as inaccessable as p5
> >
> > paradox. Many people don
On 10/25/05, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/24/05, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:49:51 -0400, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > FEAR: Perl6 internals will be just as inaccessable as p5
> >
> > paradox. Many people don't find p
On 10/24/05, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:49:51 -0400, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > FEAR: Perl6 internals will be just as inaccessable as p5
>
> paradox. Many people don't find perl5 inaccessible at all
Who? Do you know anybody who hacks th
Joshua Gatcomb skribis 2005-10-25 8:30 (-0400):
> IIRC, Andy has taken up the Perl6 PR hat. I think Juerd should like be
> working with Andy on this one. The rebuttals to these fears needs to be well
> thought out and convincing because from my personal experience they are
> prevalent.
I'll work
On 10/24/05, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My only current fear is that I won't live long enough to be able to use
> and
> understand the full richness of what perl6 is going to offer me.
>
> (Oh, and that perl6 will never be able to upgrade my scripts that use
> 'format', but I'm aw
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
FEAR: Perl6 will not be able to fix the stigma of "just a scripting
language" or "line noise"
perl5 has never been "just a scripting language"
But sadly enough it is often _perceived_ as such. And also like "line
noise", as the person you're answer
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:49:51 -0400, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 10/24/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > >Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
>
>
> FEAR: Perl6 internals will be just as inaccessable as p5
paradox. Many people don't find perl5 inac
I'll attempt to answer a couple of the Parrot fears. :-)
"Doug McNutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I fear that Parrot will not come into widespread use until perl 6 is
released.
Parrot might not be ready to come into widespread use until Perl 6 is
released - there's some stuff missing yet. B
Nate Wiger skribis 2005-10-24 10:44 (-0700):
> The fact that there's not alot of active p5p'ers on this list should
> alarm people more.
I don't know about the other Perl 6 lists, are they as p5porterless?
It does not alarm me that they are not *here*, this being a list where
we mostly discuss t
On 10/24/05, Nate Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
> > On 10/24/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
> >
> > FEAR: The Perl6 process is driving away too many good developers
> >
> > FEAR: Perl6 will not be as por
Joshua Gatcomb wrote:
On 10/24/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
FEAR: The Perl6 process is driving away too many good developers
FEAR: Perl6 will not be as portable as p5
FEAR: Perl6 is un-necessary and the time, money, and resources
On 10/24/05, John Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:47:58PM +0100, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote:
> > Another is because it will take too long to port all CPAN modules to
> > Perl 6 (for this I suggest a Porters force-task to interact with current
> > CPAN modu
I fear that, at age 70, I shall not live long enough to become efficient with
perl 6.
Two full years ago I purchased and read "Perl 6 Essentials". That lead me to
this list which I have enjoyed but never felt competent to contribute much.
Pretty much all of what I leaned in Essentials has been
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:47:58PM +0100, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote:
> Another is because it will take too long to port all CPAN modules to
> Perl 6 (for this I suggest a Porters force-task to interact with current
> CPAN module owners and help and/or port their modules).
I think Autri
On 10/24/05, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/24/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > >Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
>
>
This really isn't a fear as much as it is a complaint. It has to do with
design decisions and the list.
"Perl 5 was my rewrit
On 10/24/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
FEAR: Perl6 internals will be just as inaccessable as p5
FEAR: The Perl6 process is driving away too many good developers
FEAR: Perl6 will not be as portable as p5
FEAR: Perl6 will not be
Christian Renz skribis 2005-10-24 15:31 (+0200):
> >Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
> Fear: Perl 6 will not attract enough interested developers and
> companies to gain momentum. People will continue to be excited about
> digital watches and PHP 5.
That's already expressed in:
Christian Renz wrote:
Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
Fear: Perl 6 will not attract enough interested developers and
companies to gain momentum. People will continue to be excited about
digital watches and PHP 5.
I think Perl 6 will take time to insterest developers. One
Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
Fear: Perl 6 will not attract enough interested developers and
companies to gain momentum. People will continue to be excited about
digital watches and PHP 5.
Regards,
Christian
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Daniel Hulme skribis 2005-10-24 9:00 (+0100):
> FEAR: I will need a lobotomy before I can make sense of Perl 6!
This falls under "hard to learn".
Juerd
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Here is my part.
On Oct 24, 2005, at 07:20 , Juerd wrote:
I've created pugs/docs/quickref/fears, a list of Perl 6 fears.
Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about!
[snip]
: FEAR: Perl 6 has too many operators!
FEAR: Perl 6 has so many operators that it runs out of Un
> The current list of fears is:
You don't include my personal fear.
FEAR: I will need a lobotomy before I can make sense of Perl 6!
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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
:
: Fe
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