He didn't say it would last 20 years, he said it skipped 20 years of slow advance in favor of breaking backwards compatibility in one switch stroke, err well not switch, but you get the idea. Although 20 years of advance might look better than 7 of waiting.
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Surely the concept(*), which is to implement a glue between human languages and
computer language (=machine code), i.e. providing solid bridges between the two realms,
incoporating linguistics. That's what perl is for me, all the sigil and operator
renaming and bracket, dot and whitespace whirlpool is just like the readjustment of an
artist's palette after the blue period.
Adapting the latest findings of CS to Perl (or vice versa) to the above outlined is a
task which earns anyone undertaking it my deepest admiration (could anybody help me out
to express that in proper english? darn.)
(*) to my understanding, which might be far from accurate
--shmem
_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ /
/\_¯/(q /
---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
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