Your mind is shrouded by your zealous emotion that you are handicapped in your perception.
> What exactly is so confusing ...
I can see you how you don't understand; unfortunately, you are having trouble understand the other way.
> Frankly when people ...I'm often convinced it's not actually out of genuine confusion ...
It doesn't take you a few sentences away to getting close to name-calling. It is very difficult to listen at this stage.
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> it's not even clear how hard you actually tried.
You are putting me in the wrong camp. I love Perl and I have been using Perl for over 10 years. I am not confused. Perl is Perl5; Perl6 is an experiment that hasn't succeeded yet, And Perl6 is irrelevant to Perl5 from a language point of view (although, not vice versa).
I have students that I want to show Perl to. They, being young and natural, will not put their heart to Perl 5 if Perl 6 is out there -- different alright, but Perl 6 surely is newer and must be the future, right? Then they find the state that Perl 6 is slower than Perl 5 and obviously less mature, so they wait -- by moving on.
I have colleagues and old admins who are looking back but all their current thought are: Perl is dead, how is Perl 6 doing.
> People in the Perl community have admitted for a very long time that there were many mistakes ...
Acknowledged mistakes that have no action/effort of correcting them are not admitted. Sunk-boat fallacy is just a n excuse for not admitting mistakes.
> What exactly is so confusing ...
I can see you how you don't understand; unfortunately, you are having trouble understand the other way.
> Frankly when people ...I'm often convinced it's not actually out of genuine confusion ...
It doesn't take you a few sentences away to getting close to name-calling. It is very difficult to listen at this stage.
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> it's not even clear how hard you actually tried.
You are putting me in the wrong camp. I love Perl and I have been using Perl for over 10 years. I am not confused. Perl is Perl5; Perl6 is an experiment that hasn't succeeded yet, And Perl6 is irrelevant to Perl5 from a language point of view (although, not vice versa).
I have students that I want to show Perl to. They, being young and natural, will not put their heart to Perl 5 if Perl 6 is out there -- different alright, but Perl 6 surely is newer and must be the future, right? Then they find the state that Perl 6 is slower than Perl 5 and obviously less mature, so they wait -- by moving on.
I have colleagues and old admins who are looking back but all their current thought are: Perl is dead, how is Perl 6 doing.
> People in the Perl community have admitted for a very long time that there were many mistakes ...
Acknowledged mistakes that have no action/effort of correcting them are not admitted. Sunk-boat fallacy is just a n excuse for not admitting mistakes.