RE: Perl, the new generation

Incompatible continuity. Sounds like Microsoft marketing.

"We're strongly considering keeping compatibility, and rejecting it wherever
we can insert something that looks momentarily cool. Of course your Perl 5
programs will still work, as long as you convert them to Perl 6. We'll have
a parser that will be able to do this. Of course, you will have to write it
yourself. Perl 6 will still be perl, because the name won't change... the
language is a different matter entirely."

Doesn't wash...

A non-MS-microweenie can only digest a limited number of oxymora at a time.



David T. Grove
Blue Square Group
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Wall [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:44 PM
> To: Peter Scott
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Perl, the new generation
>
>
> 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.
>
> Larry
>