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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:34:12PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
> demerphq skribis 2006-06-16 11:05 (+0200):
> > I think these are a serious problem for the language and the
> > community. When college teachers are saying that teaching PHP makes
> > more sense because Perl is a dead language there is a problem. When
> > the people who should know better think that Perl 5 is end-of-lifed
> > because of Perl 6 then there is a problem. When the internal politics
> > of the Perl community lead to more Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt than a
> > focused Microsoft attack campaign there is something wrong.
>
> Agreed, but do you have suggestions?
>
> > We need to make it clear that Perl 5 is not dead, not sleeping, and
> > not going anywhere.
0) Get to a releasable state. This means that we shouldn't be much slower
then 5.8 in any purticular category without being clearly better in it at
the same time, and having an intersting list of new features.
1) Release 5.10.
2) Yell far and wide that we've released 5.10, and that we aren't dead.
I realize, step 0 will take a while... We seem to have mostly white smoke,
which is a very good step.
-=- James Mastros