On 12/13/2010 4:32 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > <snip> >> -1 Perl is a withering dinosaur. > <snip> >> I expect by the time P6 arrives very few people will care; Perl has >> been fading for a long time. > > ROTFLMAO! It'll wither some time after the last COBOL program is > retired... and definitely after java dies with a stake through its heart. > Yeah - that is kind of funny, especially for sysadmin type work. And by the way, there is a usable Perl 6 implimentation released, for some definitions of usable: http://rakudo.org/. But, I'm not sure there's a good reason to move away from perl 5. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com