Re: Perl, the new generation

At 01:32 PM 5/16/2001 -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>Bryan C. Warnock writes:
> > I think the biggest fear isn't that Perl is going to grow out of its 
> niche,
> > but that it's going to outgrow it.  It's great that Perl has been able to
> > expand to be so many things to so many people, but not at the expense of
> > forgetting its roots - of the whole Right Tool / Right Job that it came
> > from.
>
>In that case, how exactly has it forgotten its roots?  I mean, in what
>way is it not as useful as it was before?

It's not. (Well, OK, there's the speed thing--perl is slowing down) It's 
all perception...

					Dan

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