Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Larry Wall
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Besides, including <std_ice_cubes.h> is a fatal error on machines that don't have it yet. Bad language design, there.. : -)
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
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