Re^4: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5?

I have a lot of faith in the person who gets to decide what "Perl" is; after all, he's spent the last 22+ years designing a language family, leading implementation efforts, and developing a community around a project that's influenced my career and hobbies for the good in countless ways.

Complaining that a Perl with multi-dispatch or function signatures or grammars or junctions or laziness or a metamodel built in or defaults that ask the compiler and runtime to report warnings and errors has a higher version number than a Perl that doesn't... well, I don't understand.

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Re^5: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 06, 2010 at 15:26 UTC
Even when the Person Who Decides admits he chose it based on hubris and continuing his legacy rather than a rational thought process? Are you such a fanboy that Larry is beyond critique for you? I admire him as much as the next perl coder would, but I don't believe he is incapable of making mistakes, and the name is the first mistake for this project.	[reply]
Re^6: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 20, 2010 at 20:52 UTC
Are you such a fanboy that Larry is beyond critique for you? Ask him yourself if I have any problem telling him which of his decisions I think are wrong. He certainly has no trouble politely doing the same to me when necessary.	[reply]
Re^6: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jan 06, 2010 at 17:31 UTC
Wait, wait, wait... You're saying that there is Hubris involved in making decisions with Perl... OMG, I'm so glad you warned us. Larry must be stopped. The next thing you know he'll be foisting his Laziness and Impatience on us. Just imagine how detrimental those ideas would have been to earlier versions of Perl.	[reply]
Re^7: Will Perl 6 Replace Perl 5? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 06, 2010 at 22:24 UTC
Your attempt at deflecting the issue is denied.	[reply]


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