Front page | perl.perl6.language |
Postings from May 2009
Re: New CPAN
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next
From:
David Green
Date:
May 30, 2009 11:07
Subject:
Re: New CPAN
Message ID:
6A0D5CD3-51D8-4471-9BFB-A15B8FCAEB09@telus.net
On 2009-May-30, at 6:56 am, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> I'm not saying we *can't* create a general repository for all sorts of
> nonsense, I'm saying that we *shouldn't*.
"Holiday photos" is just a whimsical example. The problem is that
it's hard enough keeping up with what "Perl6" is today, let alone what
it will be tomorrow. Or what Perl 7 will be, or what some other
programming language/system will be that isn't even invented yet.
Mark's point is that any arbitrary restrictions put in place now will
seem short-sighted in 10 years' time, so we need something flexible.
And it's all just 1s and 0s to the computer, so you *could* use it for
photographs; that shouldn't matter to the software.
> If you want to create an infrastructure that is vastly extensible and
> too clever by half, that's you're prerogative.
Sure, it's always possible to go too far. But on the other hand,
isn't Perl 6 all about being too clever by half? It's certainly about
being vastly extensible, anyway.
-David
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next