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At 10:30 AM 7/24/00 -0700, Gary Richardson wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE ABOUT PERL?
>
> From what I've understood, the goal of perl6 is not to change the
> language, but
>the implementation. The new implementation should be designed so that it is
>easier/more simple to change the language in the future.
Your understanding is incomplete. Perl 6 may well have incompatible changes
made to it, and some stuff is almost inevitably going away. (I'd bet
everything marked "deprecated" since the first alphas of 5.000 would get
the chop) What, of course, is still up in the air, since Larry's not
actually had *time* to do anything on it yet...
Dan
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