Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

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From: Sean Conner
Subject: Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.
Date: 20:39 on 22 Dec 2006

It was thus said that the Great Abigail once stated:
> > 
> > You are right that Perl 6 is less friendly (you could say hostile) for
> > people with different whitespace styles than Perl 5 was.
> 
> Yep. Were one of the features of Perl1 to Perl5 was the fact that people
> coming from different schools would feel welcome, 

  I certainly don't feel welcome to Perl5, given that I'm apparently not
programming in it correctly or something:

	"Don't blame Perl for not having to translate your C code."
			--Abigail

	"You just don't seem to know Perl."
			--Abigail

	"Perl is not C."
			-- Earle Martin

  And language family wise, C and Perl are close (compared to, say, Perl and
Erlang).

> Perl6 takes a dramatic
> steps and is outright hostile towards those not coding according to the
> standards set by the cabal.

  Don't blame Perl for not having to translate your Perl code.

> HATE. HATE. HATE.

  -spc (Yeah, I try to avoid Perl at all costs myself ... )

There's stuff above here

Abigail 16:34 on 22 Dec 2006
- Juerd 16:52 on 22 Dec 2006
  - Abigail 22:40 on 22 Dec 2006
- Smylers 17:15 on 22 Dec 2006
  - Abigail 22:47 on 22 Dec 2006
    - too deep to show
- Sean Conner 20:39 on 22 Dec 2006
  - A. Pagaltzis 20:59 on 22 Dec 2006
- Jonathan Stowe 21:52 on 22 Dec 2006
  - Sean O'Rourke 23:05 on 22 Dec 2006
Tony Finch 18:07 on 22 Dec 2006
A. Pagaltzis 20:12 on 22 Dec 2006

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