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kubanczyk
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What Killed Perl?
> Wall wanted a language that allowed for cleverness, suprise, and ingenuity. [...] Having to learn to be a poet to be a good coder was too high a barrier.
To me this just sounds, umm, pathologically eclectic.
fatbird
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Now extrapolate to "let's do a Perl 6 that allows us to do all the things I couldn't work into Perl 5" and a lot more history makes sense.
__david__
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But I bet you could really list some rubbish with it…
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To me this just sounds, umm, pathologically eclectic.