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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:
demerphq
Date:
June 17, 2006 04:03
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
Message ID:
9b18b3110606170403p7c27d97bs378c1649337b8a88@mail.gmail.com
On 6/17/06, Richard Foley <Richard.Foley@t-online.de> wrote:
> 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.

I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I posted this thread.

Yves

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