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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:
chromatic
Date:
June 19, 2006 18:50
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self-generated FUD.
Message ID:
200606191850.14534.chromatic@wgz.org
On Monday 19 June 2006 18:36, Chip Salzenberg wrote:

> You win the thread.  Old software doesn't so much die as creak and grind
> slowly to a halt, and that's what's been happening to the users' view of
> Perl 5 for a while now.

Did you both *find* and *ask* a user?  'cuz said user isn't me, Chip, Abigail, 
Yves, or pretty much anyone reading or responding to this thread.

I can't believe a user cares about a specific Perl version, modulo bug fixes, 
when there's a working and vibrant and continually improving extension and 
extension installation system, especially now due to the underappreciated 
work of, say, Adam Kennedy as one example.

Now if you're arguing that people don't care about the *implementation* of 
Perl 5, I've subscribed to that newsletter so long ago I've lost the free 
coffee mug.

-- c

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