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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:26:06AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > http://industry.haskell.org/collab > > Note, also, that their scheme forces the incoming money to be split between > maintenance and targeted development, I think this is a key point. perl has a long history of new features being added by keen people, who then (though lack of interest or changed circumstances etc) don't hang around around to to fix the bugs. For example (and I don't mean to pick on individuals here, these are just the first two that came to mind), smart match and MRO. And new features inevitably have bugs. Perl has so many interesting features that interact with other in interesting ways, that it's impossible to get everything right first time. For example, overloading was added around 1995, yet I'm only just getting it to play nicely with tie and taint. So the overall "cost" of a new feature is far higher than just the initial development. -- SCO - a train crash in slow motionThread Previous | Thread Next