perlmeditation
duff
<p>Catchy title, eh? For a while now I've seen various people bash perl 6
for a variety of reasons. Some of the ones I can think of right off are:<p>
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<li> Perl 6 is taking too long
<li> Perl 6 is too much like Java
<li> Perl 6 isn't Perl 5
<li> Perl 6 is being designed by committee
<li> Perl 6 is suffering from the second-system effect
<li> Perl 6 is hurting Perl 5 by consuming resources
</ul>
<p>Personally, I think these people lack a sense of history because Perl 5
is the only Perl they've ever known. I could be wrong about that though.
<p>So what I'd like to do is collect all of the die-hard Perl5er's objections to Perl 6 with the eventual aim of condensing them into a set of questions to present to the people working on Perl 6 in a "respond to these objections" sort of way.
<p><b>What do you think is wrong with Perl 6? And, equally important, why do you think so?</b>
<p>Cogent arguments favored over specious arguments of course ;-)
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