> It's almost anti-academic in the approach I'd say academic approach to programming languages is anti-scientific and therefore anti-academic on itself. They j

> It's almost anti-academic in the approach I'd say academic approach to programming languages is anti-scientific and therefore anti-academic on itself. They just don't realize it yet. > Perl 6 is supposed to take these ideas and > expand on them The problem is we already have lots of features in Perl 5 that nobody really needs, they just complicate things, raise entry cost, split community, make it impossible to address performance and deployment issues. So, approach on expanding feature set is flawed and frankly always was. Instead, Perl 7 maybe should get rid of all the unneeded features, restrict feature set, restrict coding conventions, make it easier for newcomers, make it easier for everyone to understand each other's code, make it faster, easy to compile and deploy without having to install interpreter and so on. These issues are much more important, than language features. And yet no one seems to understand that.