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Hi, I generally try to stay away from these discussions, but this lured me in. Mark Mielke wrote: > Even if they do not show up - it's not polite to break things for > people. Perl 5 has an impressive installed base of people who rely on > Perl 5 to be Perl 5. Also, most of the most valuable Perl 5 code in > existence, probably isn't even recognized, because it "just works". It's > amusing and scary how much Perl corporations rely on, without > acknowledging its existence. Not acknowledging its existence means that > people move on from the project - and when something does break - maybe > because somebody updates the Perl package on their OS, there is nobody > around to fix it... That is precisely the reason they deserve to get both pieces when it breaks*. They don't give a shit about our work, why should we care any more about theirs than we already do by maintaining their tools with our not so copious spare time? Cheers, Steffen * "It" being the program that was relying on undocumented behaviour.Thread Previous | Thread Next