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Here's what I *actually* said to the reporter: > I have forwarded your message to the Perl Mongers head, Brian Foy. > He's in a better position to deal with your questions as I'm on > holiday with infrequent net and phone access. > > Perl success stories: > http://perl.oreilly.com/news/success_stories.html > > Perl 6 is a ground-up rewrite of the Perl internals, and we're going > to take the opportunity to look closely at the language and how people > are using it now so that we can change it to accomodate their new uses > (this may, or may not, include support for typing, formal interfaces, > and easier extensions in C). The newly-added "back-ends" for the Perl > 5 system will let us automatically translate almost all of the > existing Perl 5 code into any new language, so while we expect Perl 6 > to look familiar to Perl 5 users, we aren't completely shackled by > slavish backwards compatibility. > > I hope this helps you. I didn't even *mention* the web. Bah :-) NatThread Previous | Thread Next