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C++? (Score:1)
Ergh. One of my goals for the design of Perl 6 (and Parrot) has been to encourage us not to make the mistakes of C++. (Sometimes I flatter myself by thinking that roles are a better basis for a type system than the number of bits you can flip before crashing.)
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That wasn't what I meant. I wasn't trying to make any comparisions between the design, but the way that C++ took C into a different sphere of programming, and the fact that C itself is still around.
Perl 6 is likely to carve a new path for itself, but Perl 5, like C, is not likely to disappear any time soon.
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That makes sense. Still, I do worry that people will think "Wow, C++ is a dog's breakfast of a language compared to C. Perl 6 must be a mess."