At 12:38 -0400 2000.08.11, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Perl would be your first choice of an open source project?
Yes.
>I wouldn't want
>to manage projects like Apache or the GIMP with hundreds of contributers
>each of them writing in Perl.
I wouldn't choose perl for Apache, but that has nothing to do with the
number of contributors or lines of code, but because of how it works and
what it does. Same thing with GIMP, probably.
>(Heh, feature X is suddenly broken, what
>happened? [... countless days pass...] Well, when we accepted a patch
>to fix bug Y, $; was suddenly globbered in some far away code.)
Yes, that type of thing can be a problem. I think the positives outweigh
the negatives.
>Why do you bring free software in the discussion?
Because I think the mentality of those who choose Java and Microsoft over
Perl and Linux is often very much tied to such interests. I could be wrong.
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