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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
February 8, 2013 15:39
Subject:
Re: Perl 7 or Perl 2013?
Message ID:
20130208151408.GH2294@iabyn.com
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 03:19:18PM -0800, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> 
> "The issue here is purely about marketing."
> 
> Correct.  The suggestion is that there's a simple, nearly-free change
> that could be made that would improve perl's standing in the world.
> But if it doesn't involve lots of code, we can't manage the decision.

No, my objection is that it's a change for essentially zero gain.
Perl's prospects aren't going to magically transformed by introducing a
new versioning scheme.

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