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[Adam Pisoni]

On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
>> At 01:17 PM 8/14/2006, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>>> Surely the adjustment will only happen if forces in favour of  
>>> Perl increase
>>> relative to other languages?
>>
>> Two words: Perl 6.
>
> I can't see that really kicking in until an implementation is  
> sufficiently
> production ready that it's a viable choice for quick scripts and true
> prototypes. There's a lot of activity both in the language spec and  
> the
> various implementations, but it's not easy to gauge how near  
> anything is
> to readiness.
>
> Nicholas Clark

I think there's a conflict of interest having the Perl 5 maintainer  
say we shouldn't use Perl 6 now.  You're just trying to keep your  
job, admit it!

Thanks,
adam