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Postings from February 2007
Gerard Goossen wrote: > The current development on perl5 is aimed at fixing bugs, and keeping > up with the rest of the world (ithreads, unicode). There is no > evolution in the language perl5 itself. > > I want to change that. > > I want a perl which evolves, which develops new features, which ideas > are changing, on which can be experimented, new ideas tried, and old > ideas can be replaced by new ideas. I don't want to be hold back by > failed experiments, I want to use the insights of previous experiment > to develop new things. Think of different garbage collection, > continuations, monads, experiment with Object-Orientation, concurrency. > Think of it as a natural language. > > We can not do that without breaking the current perl. Dude, you're about 7 years behind. The Department of Backwards Compatibility Violating is down the hall, to the left. Just follow the trail of crushed feature proposals. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/