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Postings from June 2006
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 08:37:48AM +0200, demerphq wrote: > On 6/20/06, Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com> wrote: > >Meanwhile, in CPAN the user community is quite remarkably active, which is > >wonderful of course. But without active user-visible feature deltas to the > >Perl core, the psychological momentum that draws people to the language is > >reduced, entirely because Random::Module doesn't get the press. More press > >on CPAN modules could be much of a cure, assuming I've got the right > >diagnosis. > > Also moving more commonly used modules into core perl, making the core > perl experience more usable would improve the lot of many [...] There is something to be said for that idea. But beware, you may be falling victim to self-selection bias yourself. "Commonly used modules" are the modules that the *current* users of Perl are *already* comfortable fetching from CPAN. Moving those into the Perl core is (from an advocacy perspective) bringing coals to Newcastle. I think a better criterion is "modules that enhance Perl's core feature set in a way that excites or revives users' interest in Perl". Something like Inline::C: "A trivially simple interface to C code? Hey, that's neat."[*] [*] and it's something I'm told that Python already has...? -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>