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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.

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demerphq
Date:
June 16, 2006 15:13
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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
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On 6/17/06, Dean Arnold <darnold@presicient.com> wrote:
> Wrt the original subject, if Perl's greatest challenge is
> its syntactic freedom, then I doubt there's much to worry
> about (tho a better OO syntax would be welcome). However,
> I think most of us can agree there are other more urgent challenges.
> My personal list is concerned with functional issues:
> reducing threads footprint, and (esp.) finding an alternative to
> the threads::shared shared interpreter context and its global
> lock bottleneck. Once those issues are addressed, I've very
> little reason to ever trouble myself about Perl6.

Are you actively working on these issues? I dont recall seing any
posts on the subject...

Yves

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