tels yszrnxnpjfcbloodgatecom moin saturday 13 october 2007 100101 demerphq wrote 101307 chromatic wrote snip point python 3000s resources knob settings higher 15 sadly perl 6 perl 5 knobs stuck combined several years count correctly person actually spending dayjob time working perl 5 6 official blessing employer jan maybe rafael missed year worked fulltime perl included employer admittedly started working new job writing book moving house contributions dropped zero thats life poured way thousand hours bigint project could say employer funded paying salary day something eat working perl5 night maybe doesnt count done hobby spare time comment thread im aristotle seems tendency perl circles take position two possibilities work perl6 totally new language b maintain perl 5 0 tolerance backcompat breakage think middle ground try keep much perl5 possible focus cleaning internals things perl5 must sacrificed achieve include xs code things isnt binary scenario people choice perll5 versus perl6 options think kurila belong list time proves another choice said im super keen kurila dont think aimed problems think hold perl5 back mere existence proves options conventionally postulated think reminder important community personally think start thinking outside box bit might realize perfectly viable future perl5 doesnt involve slavishly devoted backwards compatibility isnt called perl6 fwiw agree opinion backwards compatibily perl5 greatest strength also biggest obstactle optimization whatsoever whenever start optimizing something someone points might break code matter wrong buggy backwrads code mention uses sideeffects undocumented features glad got away breaking things bigint noone minding looking interface still quite archaic places breaking things could least sanitize things like numify1 eq 1 1 etc 100 backwards compatibility bondagementality couldnt even fix bugs get rid totally insane features glad someone tries explore happens get rid obscure things breaks eggs see omelett tastes better afterwards best tels signed sat oct 13 120911 2007 key 0x93b84c15 view photo gallery httpbloodgatecomphotos pgp key httpbloodgatecomtelsasc per email elliot sie schwachkopf wed 06 aug 2008 120952 0200 kurila 13 released