Simon Cozens
Fri, 09 Feb 2001 19:39:29 -0800
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:17:19PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > The obvious and cutting rejoinder for me to make would be: > "Hey. If I believed this, I'd still be writing Perl." Don't look now, but your bias is showing. :) > What *is* going on over there, anyway? It is unfortunately true that > the effort looks stalled from the outside. I'd be happy to revise that > opinion if there are whitepapers or design notes or a Wiki or something > I could look at. http://dev.perl.org/ > (Cripes. I only dissed Perl mildly. I gave Java a much > rougher time and basically consigned Tcl to an early grave (early?) > -- but no flamage from *those* guys...) Hey, all I gave was gentle correction on the state of Perl 5. Bluntly, you got that very wrong. If you want flamage, I could provide. :) -- So what if I have a fertile brain? Fertilizer happens. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>