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Dana Hudes
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December 1, 2010 23:25
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Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?
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Books of this sort in general are fewer due to the web. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 02:14:47 
To: Dave Rolsky<autarch@urth.org>; Lyle<webmaster@cosmicperl.com>
Cc: <module-authors@perl.org>
Subject: Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

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 said that because Perl 6 was announced 10 years ago, in the latest years there were very few Perl 5 books published, so I was referring only to the work of creating books.
This is true, but I don't know, maybe I am wrong and there are other reasons for which there are fewer Perl books in the last period, not only because the interest for Perl 5 decreased...

Octavian


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