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On Thu, 10 May 2001, David Grove wrote: > The changes are beautiful. It's calling it "Perl" and relying on subliminal > pursuasion to ask users to consider it the same that bothers me. That's a > very Microsoftish tactic. No, it's "Perl 6". If you want "Perl 5" or even "Perl 4" you know where to find it. It's not a "Microsoftish tactic" it's just the way software is developed and released. > To me, any change, regardless of how small or great it may be, that alters a > language in a way that will require maintenance to come into "standard", is > not a change, but a fork. You'd prefer projects change names on every significant version? That's pretty bizarre. -samThread Previous | Thread Next