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Re: Amicable divorce (The Camel Paradox)by LanX (Saint) |
on Jul 06, 2020 at 09:18 UTC ( [id://11118957]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
You are advocating a clean break from backwards compatibility? I'm curious, how will this new language compete against JS, Ruby and Python? Will it start with a dominant market position like PHP? Why wouldn't it share the niche fate of Perl 6 or cperl or ... (name a branch)? I think if you want a break, it would be far easier to implement a Perlish syntax on top of Javascript to succeed. I agree with you that most discussions are fruitless because most players only see their own use cases and fail to speak a common "language" (sic ;) My take on this is to keep one language (read "engine") which is tailored by "master" pragmas to those needs. Perl's selling point being: "yes it's deeper than the specialists like bash or python, ... ... but you don't need to learn different languages to fill all these use cases" ° See also The Camel Paradox
Cheers Rolf °) /and if you stick to your niche's master pragma it's even not that much more difficult.
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