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Perl 6? Yeah, right.

Perl 6? Yeah, right.

Posted Sep 22, 2006 14:44 UTC (Fri) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: Perl 6? Yeah, right. by swiftone
Parent article: Perl 6? Yeah, right.

That's 6 years. That's just shy of the time it took to go from Perl 1 to Perl 5.
It's also the length of time that the Algol 68 committee took to go from concept (1963) to implementation (1969). I hope that Perl doesn't fall into the same complexity trap as Algol 68, PL/1, and Ada did, once upon a time.


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Perl 6? Yeah, right.

Posted Sep 22, 2006 16:24 UTC (Fri) by amsix_noc (guest, #38927) [Link]

> I hope that Perl doesn't fall into the same complexity trap as Algol 68,
> PL/1, and Ada did, once upon a time.

Ada, oh Ada,
Thy palindromic name
Still haunts my dreams at night...

- SB

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