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[Andy Armstrong]

On 9 Apr 2008, at 00:25, Simon Wistow wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:37:33PM +0200, Andy Armstrong said:
>> /me wonders whether anyone who isn't actively following P6  
>> development
>> /might/ have got a little lost (and fearful / contemptuous) somewhere
>> around halfway through that post :)
>
> It did occur to me just after I hit send that I probably ought to have
> vetted it. I blame a complete lack of sleep.

It wasn't really a criticism as much as an epiphany about how  
civilians must see Perl :)

> Otoh, lot's of people seem to like Ruby's optional question_mark for
> example. Perhaps all sigils should, like Hungarian notation, be
> completley optional
>
> 	foo = bar[0]
>
> is exactly the same as
>
> 	$foo = @bar[0]


Interestingly, although I too like sigils I'm not sure I'd use them if  
they were optional. And, like you, I suspect it's impossible to be  
objective after years of Perl abuse.

I'm at an open source conference in Oslo. Over dinner the consensus was

Python: pointless
Ruby: immature, slow
PHP: ugh
Perl: difficult

Personally I'm

Python: nice but I can't get past the whitespace thing. I've tried.
Ruby: immature, slow, interesting
PHP: ugh, but pragmatically it's useful
Perl: comfortable

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten