Re: perl5 to perl6

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:02:39PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Nathan Torkington <[email protected]> writes:
> >So now the changes are too SMALL, and we should have a language that
> >  is completely different so that you won't be confused when you edit
> >  different scripts?
> 
> Speaking as someone that has often had to work on C, Perl, Verilog and VHDL
> at the same time I can say that clearly visible differences are not without
> merit.

Yea, verily.  I have more than once stared for more seconds than I
care to admit being completely baffled at why my C compiler doesn't
appreciate

	print "foo = $foo\n";

> >
> >Nat
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> Nick Ing-Simmons
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