Re: Perl, the new generation

[email protected] (Michael G Schwern) Thu, 10 May 2001 19:22:38 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.perl6.meta
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On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:56:36PM -0400, David Grove wrote:
> 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.

I think there's a communications foul-up here.  We're definately
providing some sort of Perl 5 translator/adaptor system and we're
definately writing it.  In fact, it was hotly debated on
perl6-language just recently exactly how to do it cleanly.

Have I missed something?  Have you missed something?


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