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On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Dave Rolsky" <autarch@urth.org> >> We hear the same argument in reverse that people should work on Perl 5 >> instead of Perl 6, as if the people who are working on Perl 6 would _of >> course_ be working on Perl 5 if 6 didn't exist. There's no reason to think >> this is true, and many reasons to think it's not. Many Perl 6 people never >> contributed to Perl 5 the way they do with 6. > > > Maybe there are others that said that, but I have said something related and I want to be more clear. I wasn't attributing this idea to you. The idea that Perl 6 has drained development resources from Perl 5 has come up many times over the years. -dave /*============================================================ http://VegGuide.org http://blog.urth.org Your guide to all that's veg House Absolute(ly Pointless) ============================================================*/Thread Previous | Thread Next