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On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 4:36 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you missed the point. > > [Awesome comments omitted for brevity] > > I think the community will contibue to be particularly sensitive to > back-compat issues, it is in in our blood and heritage. Yet at the > same time, the only truely stable language is a dead one. And we arent > in the programming-language mortuary business here on this list. +1 I think Yves' comments were passionate, direct and on the mark. Perl 5 will change and that will occasionally break things in the name of progress. Hopefully, it will be rare, but we should never think that it won't happen. I do believe that Yves' was speaking in general, and nothing personal was directed towards Steffen, whose well-intentioned thoughts on what turns out to have been a 16-year old deprecation have led to a thread rather larger than the specific issue at hand. Still, I think that what Yves said needs to be said and said again. I'm going to bookmark it to save me having to make the same point again sometime. -- DavidThread Previous | Thread Next