State of the Onion 2003
by Larry Wall
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It's also more sophisticated linguistically.
Not only can it represent singular and plural concepts, but also the old Indo-European notion of dual objects.
We still have vestiges of that in English.
One ox, many oxes, two oxen yoked together pulling your plow.
Or one regex, many regexes, but two regexen working together.
You always wanted to know the proper name for a two-headed Vax?
Everything is possible. You should be grateful.
On to the ungrateful undead.
There's been a lot of carping lately about how slow Perl 6 development is going. Some of it comes from well intentioned folks, but some of it comes from our poison pen pals who live in the troll house. Still, I think a lot of the criticism shows a lack of understanding of the basic laws of development. These laws can be illustrated with this diagram:
Basically, perfect development is impossible. Development can be fast, good, and cheap. Pick two.
Actually, that's unrealistic.
Pick one.
Which one would you pick? You want fast? You want cheap? No, I think you want this one.
Good.
