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Re: Working Group Proposal

From:
Brust, Corwin
Date:
July 21, 2000 09:32
Subject:
Re: Working Group Proposal
Message ID:
C9B7EC4FABC7D31199E800105AE670FA432A27@shadmail1.alldata.net
>I think if we go this way, we're going to have to be careful about what
>we allow people to call Perl. If it doesn't pass some preset group of
>tests, then it doesn't qualify as Perl, much like Sun's test for Java
>implementations.

Perhaps a 'Perlness Czar' to help distributors evaluate their versions as
being sufficiently Perl-like.

Corwin Brust
corwin@mpls.cx

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