From: Abigail on
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szr (szrRE(a)szromanMO.comVE) wrote on VCCCLVIII September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:fvdpkf02a6n(a)news4.newsguy.com>:
::
:: So given this, why would one, who have plenty of Perl code, feel
:: compelled to choose Perl 6 over Perl 5 and spend what could huge amounts
:: of time rewriting a lot of code?


The same kind of people that over the years left Perl5 behind and started
coding in Ruby, Dylan, Java or Python.

There will always be people not, or no longer, satisfied by the language
they are using. Many of those people switch language.



Abigail
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sub TIESCALAR{bless\my$y=>Z}sub FETCH{$a++?Perl:Just}
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