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Re: Working Group Proposal

From:
John Porter
Date:
July 24, 2000 09:34
Subject:
Re: Working Group Proposal
Message ID:
20000724123419.C7839@min.net
horos wrote:
> LALR would be awesome, I would even say essential. It strikes at the heart of 
> the complaint people have of perl being a 'messy' language, puts it on the the 
> same playing field as Java and Python.

That would tantamount to Perl (aka Larry, aka the Perl community) saying, 
"We were wrong, Java and Python were right."  But we weren't wrong.


> Perl needs a vision - several points that take it out of its current niches,
> that allow it to spread to new functional areas. Coming up with that vision and
> successfully spreading it will determine perl6's success or failure.

I agree.  Hard not to, eh?

-- 
John Porter

	Aus tiefem Traum bin ich erwacht.

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