From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-03-05T17:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Boy I love the Ruby community

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:32:02PM +0900, Giles Bowkett wrote:
> Yeah, Perl 5 and Perl 6 are definitely different, and Perl 6 is
> definitely breaking backwards compatibility. If that thing about Perl
> 5 development continuing even after Perl 6's release is true, I don't
> think that sounds very promising. Some of the ideas in Perl 6 are
> pretty fascinating and weird, but that doesn't necessarily make it
> useful.

Um, yes.  Thank you for that thoughtful analysis.

I'm looking forward to Perl 6.  You don't have to.

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