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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
February 28, 2007 10:47
Subject:
Re: Future Perl development
Message ID:
20070228184708.GC5748@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:34:14PM +0000, Tels wrote:

> Wow, I will put these into my .sigfile right next to the Duke Nukem Forever 
> quotes.

Are there quotes on Arc? Xanadu has now been released. But it had a bit of a
headstart.

> (In my mind, Perl 6 was the worst thing that could happen to Perl5 since it 
> drew large man power away from Perl 5 development to produce - well, 
> Parrot. Bot to belittle Parrot as it is a very interesting project in 
> itself, even tho it started as an April's Fool, but it is not Perl 6. Perl 
> 6.0.0 does not exist yet.)

We've been onto this before and

1: It's off topic for perl5-porters

(what I agree with and what I don't can be found out given sufficient beer.
But you won't find out everything that way)

Also, I should note, that anyone who wants to change history has a minor
problem with causality, even if they get their time machine working.

Nicholas Clark
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