From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T16:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:12:32PM +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think it's necessary to wait for Perl 6 -- but I'm certainly
> > looking forward to it.
> 
> I'm just totally bored with Perl -- Perl 4 was a great improvement over
> awk, but I only maintain old code in it. I don't like to write new Perl
> code, and I am not willing to wait for Perl 6 when there are other
> languages I like -- Erlang, Ruby, and maybe Smalltalk (assuming a decent
> Smalltalk shows up on the AMD64 in Gentoo before I die. :) Perl 5.8 is
> good enough, Ruby and R are better

Well . . . that's another sense in which I don't think it's necessary to
"wait for" Perl 6: keep learning other languages, and learning to be
better with the languages you already know.  Still, I'm looking forward
to it.  I think Perl 6 will be one of the coolest languages going when
it's finally release-worthy.

I know I've said so in this venue before -- I don't think of Ruby as
being "better" than Perl.  It's better at some things, and worse at
others.  As such, I still use (and quite like) both.

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when
it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production."