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On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 10:11:57PM +0200, Sawyer X wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> > wrote: > > > It's important to have a plan and a vision before you break ground on your > > massive new skyscraper. After it's inhabited and in heavy use, it is not > > unreasonable for the vision to be "it remains standing and habitable, with > > improvements made when the possibility becomes apparent." > > > > But Perl 5 isn't a skyscraper. There is no "we're done, we can go home now" > stage. If we're at the stage of "basically we're done, we just gotta make > improvements when the possibility becomes apparent", it's more like just > trying to keep the patient alive. In Ricardo's metaphor, Perl 5 is indeed not a skyscraper, it's a city. The skyscraper is a new feature. The "done" stage does exist for a skyscr^Wfeature, where the proverbial attention ported to backwards compatibility by the porters means that the focus shifts from "build it" to "keep it standing". -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #5 (Epic))Thread Previous | Thread Next