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Postings from January 2002
From: Brent Dax [mailto:brentdax@cpan.org] > Aaron Sherman: > # > # I think the first guy that gets hired to maintain Perl6 code, > # and think "hey, I know Perl, no sweat" will disagree with > # you. > > I disagree. He'll see stuff he doesn't understand and try to > consult perldoc on it, at which point he'll realize that he's > working with Perl 6. Then he'll run out, get Camel IV, read > it, and go back to work. Programmer is working with a better > version of language, program is fixed, and ORA made fifty > bucks. Everybody's happy. :^) Perhaps. Or perhaps he'll be like our company's lead C++ developers. They liked Perl4 well enough for a certain problem domain, saw some Perl5 code... and have tried to stay away from it ever since. Perl6 isn't going to make everyone happy.