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chromatic
Date:
March 25, 2008 11:17
Subject:
Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.
Message ID:
200803251100.08840.chromatic@wgz.org
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 10:50:15 Richard Hainsworth wrote:

> What the perl6 language needs now is a systematic development plan, with
> broad aims and clear goals that will lead to good quality software and
> to the tools to enable ordinary programmers to use perl6 for a variety
> of tasks.

Perl 6 has had several plans over the past eight years.  What Perl 6 hasn't 
had in quite a while is paid developer time.

Plans are good and plans are fine, but I've never seen a plan do the 
red-green-refactor loop once, let alone the few million times it'll take to 
finish Perl 6.0.

-- c
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