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> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 01:41:14 +1100 > From: rabbit-p5p@rabbit.us > To: perl5-porters@perl.org > CC: perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org; jesse@fsck.com; davem@iabyn.com; sprout@cpan.org; nick@ccl4.org; mail@steffen-mueller.net; xdg@xdg.me > Subject: What happened to the whole "small core" idea? > > > Hence why I particularly lament the lack of movement towards Jesse's > vision. IMNSHO Perl5 does not need *any* extra *syntax* from here on > out. In fact it stopped needing it around 5.6-ish. No new syntax unless > there is a massive benefit in adding it, and even then only if it can > not be done via a CPAN-distributed extension. Besides Reini's work on > strict types, nothing else currently comes to my mind as a candidate for > this *has* to be in core. ................................................................ Yet when it comes to actually shipping Perl5 we > keep shipping a new mini-language just sufficiently different from its > previous sibling. > > Every. > Fucking. > Year. > > And the worst part? - it appears that nobody wants the fucking thing > except for a very very small but very very vocal minority. > > Perl5 just turned 18 a week ago (according to a0d0e21ea6e). It is now > legal to express ones love to this great dynamic language in every way > possible. What better time to ask where is Perl5 going and why can't it > stay Perl5? > > Peter Rabbitson > Concerned Citizen of the Republic of Perl I don't comment because I don't want a new language or care. I use Perl 5.6 or 5.8 The Language from 10 years ago. I dont see any reason to learn any other programing languages. Maybe the reason it becomes a flamewar is because the people who don't care are silent and invisible rather than vocally protest.Thread Previous