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Stephen P. Potter writes: > 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. And yet there are a zillion programs from perl4 and earlier that still work in perl5. In what way can you not use Perl to solve sysadmin problems or hack out fun solutions to problems? I do those two things all the time. > 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. If you want to do it, do it. I vomit at the thought of a language without data structures or modules, though, and I wouldn't be surprised if others did too. The perl6 runtime will be separate from the language parser, so you could write a perl4 parser to run on the perl6 runtime if you wanted to be so perverse. NatThread Previous | Thread Next