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Speaking for myself (Score:1)

by mdxi (4658) on 2005.02.22 3:11 (#38406) Homepage Journal

...the biggest problem with perl6 is that no one even knows what the hell it is. The existing design documents, with their appropriately religious naming scheme, are as transparent as a mud-smeared concrete wall. Nothing intelligible ever comes from whoever is working on it; no news, no updates, and certainly nothing along the lines of "here's what you can actually *do* with this...". It all reads like marketing gwana-gwana for a compiler design class.

Everyone I know has basically given up on perl6, don't even try to understand it anymore (taxonomy of mythical creatures, anyone?), and are just looking forward to perl5.10.

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- Re:Speaking for myself (Score:1)
  
  by jesse (2531)
  
  And what does perl 5.10 have that you want?

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