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From:
Ovid
Date:
June 24, 2009 02:43
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.10.1
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385570.5380.qm@web65712.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----
> From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
>
> > I want to encourage people to experiment. Perl really, really needs some
> > help and barring Perl 6 being released and adopted tomorrow, Perl 5 is the
> > pony to bet on right now. Rafael holds the keys to the main branch of Perl
> > right now and he's taking a conservative approach, as is his right. Thus, I
> > don't see anything changing there. We need a good, stable fork where we can
> > try to make Perl a modern language. Maybe's it's Schwern's fork. Maybe it's
> > Kurila (I honestly don't know as I haven't paid enough attention).
>
> Seriously, I don't see the point of forking. You'd want to fragment even more
> the little resources we have for Perl 5 ? If someone sees me as an impediment
> and wants the patch pumpkin, then ask.
I don't see you as an impediment at all. I see you as having more risk-averse strategy for Perl than I do, but I see that as a difference, not an impediment. And this is not meant as subtle criticism!
So Nick's suggestion of bundling everything is a compromise for those (like myself) who would like to see the core language brought into the modern age (it's soooooo close ... :) and those (like yourself) who have a more conservative approach that's likely to be reassuring to existing code bases (the darkpan is important).
I would just like to see some way of bridging the gap between these disparate views.
Cheers,
Ovid
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