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> very prominent Perl advocates, but not necessarily all of the community I agree, but my suspicion is that the larger mainstream community grew out of Perl be
by jhanschoo 7y ago
> very prominent Perl advocates, but not necessarily all of the community
I agree, but my suspicion is that the larger mainstream community grew out of Perl being in the right time and place for a scripting language borrowing idioms from sh and C. Whereas the central figures directing Perl were always driven in the direction of eclecticism.
- microtherion 7y ago> The central figures directing Perl were always driven in the direction of eclecticism I don't agree. Larry Wall always had an eclectic streak, but he was also a very practical guy, trying to scratch system administrators' itches with Perl. A lot of Perl 5's eclecticism stems from its predecessors: sed, awk, sh The other key contributors in Perl 5 in the 90s (The various Perl 5.x pumpkings, Tom Christiansen, Randal Schwarz, etc) were also very practically inclined. But as far as I recall, apart from Larry, most key contributors to Perl 6 did NOT work on the Perl 5 core prior to 2000 (I'm sure somebody could pull up actual names and statistics to confirm or correct this), though they were certainly active in the community.