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Re: Future Perl development

From:
chromatic
Date:
February 4, 2007 21:00
Subject:
Re: Future Perl development
Message ID:
200702042100.16407.chromatic@wgz.org
On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:53, Craig Berry wrote:

> The language list is still trying to decide
> whether math should be done in floating point or integer and debating
> whether something that sounds like a multi-dimensional array slice can
> be supported. 

Don't mistake p6l for Larry.  (You could use the same argument to claim that 
p5p is still debating whether to rip out the entire Unicode system and jump 
straight to Perl 7.)

> The list summaries are written by insiders for insiders,
> and there's nothing wrong with that, but when a non-maintained mirror
> of them is presented as the primary source of project status, that's
> not a PR problem, that's a PR wormhole that sucks potentially
> interested parties off into other galaxies where you will never see
> them again.

I'm sure Jesse and Ann welcome your help to fix it.  The same goes for 
everyone else reading in this thread.

-- c



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