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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.

From:
Richard.Foley
Date:
June 17, 2006 01:56
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
Message ID:
200606171111.31758.Richard.Foley@rfi.net
On Friday 16 June 2006 16:18, demerphq wrote:
> I have some ideas. We need people like Chromatic from O'Reilly
> publishing it as much as possible. We need people to write papers and
> press releases about what our plan is. 
>
What is serious here, for the Perl community, is that I know of 2 (good) 
technical (programming) book publishers who have declined Perl book projects 
recently, for essentially the same reason: they felt the Perl market was 
done.  As an American character from the Sharpe historical drama series once 
said: "Money talks, talent walks."

Getting people to see that while Perl 6 will be a nice-to-have extra one day,  
core Perl 5 is both alive and kicking, and maintained and solid, with a wide 
and well supported customer base, is critical to the future of this fantastic 
language.

-- 
Richard Foley
Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen

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