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From:
Chip Salzenberg
Date:
July 24, 2000 16:29
Subject:
Re: Perl version of Python Enhancement Proposals [PEP]
Message ID:
20000724154430.B6255@perlsupport.com
According to Russ Allbery:
> I thought we were just borrowing the terminology for formal proposals.

Me too.  And I first used the term "RFC" in the meeting at the conference.

> There's actually a serious proposal to model Perl development on
> the IETF?

Nope.  It's just a red herring, or at least some kind of colored fish.

> I live and breath by technical osmosis; it's how I pick up almost
> everything I'm interested in.

Me, too.  But we can't afford the social impact of a group growing
beyond the point where peer pressure is effective.  Do you know of
any way to reconcile these two needs?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K

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