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Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> whispered: | Peter Scott writes: | : So, I wonder aloud, do we want to signify that degree of change with a more > | : dramatic change in the name? | | I'm inclined to think that people will be more likely to migrate if | they subconsciously think we're taking continuity into consideration. | Which we are, albeit not at a syntactic compatibility level. It seems to me that recently (the last two years or so) and especially with 6, perl is no longer the SAs friend. It is no longer a fun litle language that can be easily used to hack out solutions to problems. It is now (becoming) a full featured language, quite at the expense of its heritage. When we moved from 4 to 5, so people thought we should continue developing 4 without all the "useless" new stuff, like OO and threads and etc. I wonder more and more if they weren't right. I wonder if as 6 develops if we shouldn't split off the old 4 syntax and have two languages. -sppThread Previous | Thread Next