Re: perl 6 requirements

[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Tue, 01 Aug 2000 07:29:05 -0600
Newsgroups perl.bootstrap
Message-ID <14577.965136545@chthon>
>This is why we need people what Perl *is* to get on the language list
>and fight the incoming. Perl 6 is meant to be the next version of Perl,
>not the bastard child of Python and Java.

Could have fooled me. :-(

I suggest that the language list discuss this very matter: what 
Perl really *is*, so that we know the tenets and principles against
which proposals can be measured.

--tom