2 naive questions: Perl 6; Perl vs. shell scripts

From: J Krugman (jkrugman345_at_yahbitoo.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:17:23 +0000 (UTC)

Two very naive, and quite unrelated just-out-of-curiosity questions.

Where is Perl 6? Not that I'm impatient or anything (quite the
contrary, actually; I'd like to master Perl 5 and enjoy the benefits
of this mastery for a little while, before going back to square
1). But I thought already months ago that its release was imminent.
Is it because, as a free software project, there just aren't enough
programmers available for the task? Or is the delay unrelated to
manpower issues?

The second question is: given how much more powerful Perl scripting
is compared to (Unix) shell scripting, I'm surprised that there's
so much shell scripting still out there. Is there any hope that
Perl scripts will replace 95% of the shell scripting out there?
Or are all these shell scripts going to be with us forever, just
like COBOL?

jill 

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