Speaking as a perl programmer I find that a bit insulting. We do see how awful some of it is. perl4->perl5->perl6 have been as much about cleanup as adding functionality. And I would have thought this forum would have been more aware that after Audrey built the first perl6 interpreter basically overnight in Haskell that almost every perl aficionado around has looked at Haskell and many have learned it and that it's a major contributor to the design space of perl6. But then nobody beats a dead horse so I'll just keep laughing all the way to the bank on my perl programs. :) -ljr Jon Fairbairn wrote:
Having a fairly small amount of flexible syntax (and Haskell is already pushing the boundaries of "fairly small") together with powerful abstraction tools is far better than having a syntax so huge that no-one can see how weak the abstractions are... I keep trying, but I don't think I can finish this posting without mentioning Perl, whose aficionados have so much investment in having learned all that crap that they can't see how awful it is.